Have reinstated this old post which had gone AWOL. I would have backdated it but there's a bug in the system.

Well worth a second  read. 

Thanks Dave. My mind is on Midland matters at the moment as I need to build one or two more MR wagons for my post-pooling goods trains. The obvious source is Bill Bedford's range of resin wagon kits:

https://mousa-models.co.uk/product-category/4mm-scale/4mm-lms-resin-wagon/

I expect that @Compound2632 would instruct me to do another D299, but it's tempting to add a bit of variety with one of the other MR diagrams in that range instead.

24 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

https://mousa-models.co.uk/product-category/4mm-scale/4mm-lms-resin-wagon/

 

I expect that @Compound2632 would instruct me to do another D299, but it's tempting to add a bit of variety with one of the other MR diagrams in that range instead.

By no means. There were plenty of the blighters still about but if you want to put a post-war stamp on your train (rather than looking as if you don't understand how pre-pooling goods traffic worked) I think you should go for a 10 or 12 ton open to D663A. Although Bill describes it as a coal wagon, they were at first officially "goods and coal" like the 8 ton wagons, with bottom doors, but later lots were without these. If it were me, I'd pitch the date at c. 1924, so you could have a new LMS 12-ton open, D1666, to complete the family. That just post-grouping date will give you the maximum range of types of wagon and liveries - so you can have the same wagon in, say, LNWR and LMS livery.

Indeed, I'll go further and say I look forward to a train that includes no ordinary GW opens or vans. Is he brave enough? 

Thanks Stephen, now that is thought-provoking. I'll accept the challenge. I think I'll time it a bit shy of grouping though, i.e. ca. 1919 with my Open Cab 1854 PT as motive power.

It will require a bit of joined up thinking. These five make up the sum total of my foreigners so far:

They have been selected mainly from "the neighbours", in order to indicate Farthing's location on the Berks & Hants Extension. They tend to appear one or two at the time when I shunt the yards in my normal 1900-1907 pre-pooling mode. 

But for this 1919 train I'll need to take other factors into account, e.g. the size and distribution of nationwide fleets, as discussed in the "Foreign wagons" thread.

The SDJR Road Van, MSWJR 3-planker and LSWR stone wagon need special backstories, and are out of the equation for the 1919 train I think. The D299 and LSWR 10 ton van are better candidates.

Edited for clarity/rambling

Yes, you can - should - range much more widely.