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The wagon and carriage shop - West Country China Clay Co wagons

drduncan

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The Empire Mills project's next phase is, as I may have blamed Gareth for in the past, back-dating the china clay dries to the Edwardian period, which means it needs a new set of china clay wagons. I managed to find an interesting picture of what appeared to be a line of china clay wagons which had peaked ends and a solid roof - rather like salt wagons. Gareth, clearly in a mood of contrition, found a drawing of such a wagon belonging to the West Of England China Clay company. It looks like it was an ex broad gauge wagon converted to standard/narrow gauge in 1892. Now I had no excuse not to try to make them - blast the helpful chap.

 

I decided that a batch of four would be a good start, on the basis that marking out four wouldn't take much longer than doing one. I used 40 thou sheet and marked out four sets of ends, sides and floors, and then scribbed the planking on the sides (the ends appear to have been covered in sheet steel - possible as part of the conversion to standard/narrow gauge). after this it was a matter of moments to snap out the components along the lines scored with a scalpel.

 

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With the components for the bodies ready, they were assembled with plasticweld.

 

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Finally solebars were added.

 

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However, there are still a lot of things that need to be done:

  • Corner plates and door strapping have to be added
  • Brake gear has to be made as the wagons have a 9'6" wheelbase, worse luck
  • All the solebar and rivet detail has to be added
  • The buffers have to be sourced and fitted. Anyone know where I can get self contained buffers for BRCW wagons that are possibly pre RCH standardisation?
  • The roofs have to be constructed and fitted
  • W irons, springs and axles boxes (grease) have to be added
  • Painting and lettering
  • And of course the AJ coupings need to be fitted.

As always, I'll keep you posted with any progress.

 

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drduncan

Cheers Gareth! I hope you will show off the very swb end door coal wagon you've been woring on.

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Nick Platt

Coming back to the 'sport' after a 10 year break and I find I have a copy of the Swindon diagram for the conversion of this wagon from BG.  It is numbered 9862w and dated 2/4/92. Diagram 9861w is for the conversion from BG of West of England China Clay Co's 4-plank openand is dated 30/12/93.  Both copies were obatained from the NRM in 2009 so most likely are still available.

 

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drduncan

Hi Nick,

Is it the same one as in the back of the Gloucester wagons book?  Any chance you could pm scans of them?

 

You also might be interested in my 3D workbench thread where I’ve done a BG version: 

 

Regards,

 

Duncan

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