Very nice Dave. I must check if I need some for Barrow Road.

Robin

Very nice Dave. I must check if I need some for Barrow Road.

 

Robin

Robin,

Thanks. Yes, they make up into a nice representation but need a bit of preparation work - cleaning up the castings, filling some spurious holes, etc.

These stops are described as "GWR" but were also adopted by BR as their standard design. They happen to look very similar to the stops used at Delph, even though it was ex-LNWR/LMS and most of the trackwork remained unchanged to the end (30 foot panels with 9 foot sleepers in the yard). For whatever reason, it looks like the buffers were replaced at some time after nationalisation. All except one that is, which was some sort of home made massive timber baulk construction (see reply with photo, in my previous post).

The main differences from the kit are:

- steel rod tie bar is located behind the buffer beam whereas the kit has it below in the vertical leg.

- the buffer beam should be longer with rounded ends (I've ignored this on the model and just used the kit item. I did think of relacing it with a wooden item - the originals were badly splintered - but it raised the question of how to secure it to brass parts with adequate strength to avoid subsequent detachment, so I stuck to fully soldered construction.

Dave.

These stops are described as "GWR" but were also adopted by BR as their standard design. They happen to look very similar to the stops used at Delph, even though it was ex-LNWR/LMS ...

I don't think that's quite true. As far as I understand it, BR adpoted a wartime LMS design as its standard. Swindon however seemed to have simply ignored this and continued to use the GWR design on WR lines.

However, looking at the prototype photo of Delph in your previous post, the bufferstops in question seem to be of the LNWR design (or one of them at least). This is quite similar to the GWR design, but at the bottom of the vertical rails there is a mounting plate instead of the rail being joggled out. This is nicely masked by the mound of coal in the photo!

Seems like I cannot post photos here, otherwise I would illustarte the various types. If you send me a message offlist, I can send them to you. In the course of researching some 2mm kits, I have so far amassed information on over 20 different types of rail-built bufferstops.

Chris Higgs

These stops are described as "GWR" but were also adopted by BR as their standard design. They happen to look very similar to the stops used at Delph, even though it was ex-LNWR/LMS ...

 

I don't think that's quite true. As far as I understand it, BR adpoted a wartime LMS design as its standard. Swindon however seemed to have simply ignored this and continued to use the GWR design on WR lines.

 

However, looking at the prototype photo of Delph in your previous post, the bufferstops in question seem to be of the LNWR design (or one of them at least). This is quite similar to the GWR design, but at the bottom of the vertical rails there is a mounting plate instead of the rail being joggled out. This is nicely masked by the mound of coal in the photo!

 

Seems like I cannot post photos here, otherwise I would illustarte the various types. If you send me a message offlist, I can send them to you. In the course of researching some 2mm kits, I have so far amassed information on over 20 different types of rail-built bufferstops.

 

Chris Higgs

Chris,

Yes, you're quite right. On closer inspection of various photos, I can just make out the plate you refer to,so my buffer stops are wrong. I think I'll stick with what I have, though, as in most cases, the base of the stops is overgrown with weeds or piled high with rubble, stacks of spare cobble stones/setts, etc., making it fairly well obscured. It's too late to change now, but thanks anyway.

Dave.