Since the last time I added anything we have been a little busy. We have 3 new wagon kits(see Below) and we have been designing the next batch of new kits.

FRWC60 S&DJR/LSWR/Midland Railway/LMS/SR 8ton 2 Plank open Wagon

Between 1898 and 1912 the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway committee build over 43 2 plank open wagons for use in the movement of general goods. These wagons were original built with fixed sides and rated at 8 tons but after 1904 they were built with a centre drop door in each side and some were up rated to 10 tons.

In 1914 all of the S&DJR’s revenue earning wagons were split between evenly the Midland and the LSWR. All departmental stock was retained in S&DJR livery until 1930. Most of the wagons that were allocated to the Midland and LSWR would have been absorbed into the LMS or the SR. A few of these wagons lasted into early British Railways.

FRWC61 NER/LNER/PO/BR R2-R4 10ton Coke hopper

This kit represents a R2/R4 Coke hopper wagon built for the North Eastern Railway’s Central Division between 1893 and 1910. These wagons were a direct descendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway’s 8ton coal hopper and were basically a NER central division P5 hopper with extra planks added to the top. The R2 having 2 planks and the R4 having 3 extra planks.

From 1905 the number of R4’s were drastically reduced as they were either rebuilt into R2’s by having the top rave removed or sold off in to private ownership either to Gas, Chemical or Coke works around the north of England and southern Scotland.

All of the R4s had gone before 1923 with over 100 of R2’s passed into the LNER’s stock with a few living long enough in private hands to reach nationalisation in 1947.

FRWC62 NER/LNER/BR Q1 Loco Coal/High Goods

These wagons were built in batches by the NER, between 1880 and 1900, for the sole purpose of delivering locomotive coal to the company’s locomotive depots. As larger capacity wagons were built for this purpose the smaller capacity Q1 wagons were, on the whole, surplus to requirement.

Most of the Q1’s were still not even 10 years old so the NER put them to work as “High goods†wagons a role that they were well suited. Later in life these wagons came back into service stock are again they were replaced by larger capacity wagons.

A large number of these wagon passed to the LNER in 1923 a few were still in service as loco coal wagons but the majority were in the high goods role. By 1947 there were only 2 of these wagons left in departmental stock.

The next wagons will be:-

1. S&DJR/LMS/BR 20 Ton 6-wheel Brake Van
   
2. NER/LNER/BR C2 4 plank
   
3. SECR/W^D/SR/BR 4 plank dropside
   
4. Rhymney Railway/GWR 4 plank
   
5. GNoSR/LNER/BR 17 Ton Brake van
   
6. LYR/LMS/BR Gunpowder Van
   
7. LYR/W^D/LMS/BR 1 plank
   
8. LYR/W^D/LMS/BR Single Bolster
   

These should all be ready for the Gauge 0 Guild's GuildEX2012 in September