Right, afternoon all.

Its just too cold to be out in the workshop and i am bored of cutting up planks for van sides (more another time) and waiting for glue to dry so here goes part two

Perhaps i should just identify the pics alittle. The first pic, not a single wagon in there belongs to me, thats a very small selection of wagons that can turn up to any GL5 event. A small event may have 30-50 wagons. a medium size, 100+ wagons, and the biggest easily top over 200!

The second and 5th pics are at a private railway in Lincolnshire, you can see pretty much all the layout in that view, from that viewpoint, but we still had 100 wagons, 5 coaches and 8 locos there that day.

Right, since i havnt been kicked off with shouts of take your model engineering and stick it... on another forum, I'll continue.

Over the last few years, the Neasden outstation of Southam carriage and wagon has been rather busy.

The original loco was built nearly 14 years ago now, and i probably have some embarressing shots of a very young me driving it! Which i will spare the viewers from...

Numbered as 18 Michael Faraday she (or should i say he) runs on halfords car batteries and 7 beuhler motors so has a good turn of speed and grunt! Its also fitted with radio control, hence most recent shots show her driverless! Decked out in Metropolitan/London transport red of the 1930s (Halfords volkswagen Gambia red!)

As Nigel quite rightly commented, live steam is best, so currently in the shops is a pannier tank which will of course be outshopped in LT red livery. Currently its in many bits awaiting niggle sorting and painting.

The first coach was built nearly ten years ago and remained for a long time solitary. The metropolitan railway extended brake 3rd 'dreadnought' no 495 was originally ride on but hasnt been used as such in years.

More recently 2 more third class coaches have been built, in a similar manner using birchply normally associated with model planes or boats, and varnished several times to achieve a rich teak colour.

The short teak van is a loose model of the Milk van preserved in the london transpoert museum. before anyone comments, yes its too long but its a riding truck so it doesnt matter, just looks good.

The first wagon built to scale was B563, a metropolitan railway brake van of 1898, in its final livery under LT.

After the brake van came 4 wagons in a year, three Met railway 3 plank dropside ballast wagons, Met 23(soon to be renumbered), LT BW32 and BW147

also, on an identical chassis as they were rebuilt from the ballasts, a 5 plank open, ash wagon, A952

Then came an unusual vehicle, and one of only three Metropolitan railway goods wagons to survive, the 'Pooley' workshop van, for the men who calibrated and maintained the weighbridges at station. this vehicle is modelled with a full interior including forge and workbench, as well as opening underfloor lockers and doors. A full photo survey of this wagon was taken as it quietly rots in a field in Rutland!

My first two wagons were a pair of articulated railwagons, for which i had to design my own drawgear for (nothing similar exists) and the livery is totally based on supposition, there being no photos.

Nearly there,

As mentioned earlier two more coaches are on the way, this time first class coaches to make up a minimum 5 coach set. Still a PITA to move around!

On my workbench are two more ballast wagons, to take the total up to 5, and a short little box van for which i am making the body for this week.

Finally, all our wagons together in one train back in dember. There are three more London transport wagons in 5 inch gauge belonging to a friend that make up the full 12 wagons, with three more coming, and another brake van from someone else. Pretty good considering it was only a farily short line (approx 50 miles) and only had 600 wagons

So, if your still with me, a busy house and a lot to move around!

Cheers, LC