A couple of (Janners) Plymouth Friary Shed residents and a visitor from Exmouth Junction Shed....
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Having lived in Devon for many years the old GWR was ever present however small outposts of the LSWR that still existed held much interest. A trip from Plymouth North Road to Gunnislake in a Wessex Trains Class 153 (Black & Gold with picture vinyls and Celtic Knots) certainly stirred interest in the remains of the Southern Railway's Withered Arm. Over the years I've taken the opportunity to photograph the remnants of the old Plymouth Friary-Callington line via Bere Alston including photographing the station and remaining buildings at Bere Alston.
In steam days the LSWR O2's were synonymous with the line and Plymouth Friary shed had a number of them allocated to it for local services around Plymouth. The introduction of the Kernow/DJM O2 model was received favourably in the 46444 camp being a personal favourite. Two were obtained and here are the fruits of my labours. I might hasten to add that these projects where influenced by Graham Muspratt's excellent 'Fisherton Sarum' blog entries listed below.
I'd also like to thank Graham for his input in locomotive post war allocation and general information.
Kernow's push pull fitted 225 became Plymouth allocated 182 being a straightforward renumbering using HMRS 'Methfix' Bullied 'Sunshine' numbers.
I'd not used Methfix decals before but eventually I got used to nuances of these transfers and would certainly use them again. To seal the decals I used a couple of coats of brush applied Johnson's Kleer but will finish with weathering and airbrush applied satin varnish.
Kernow's BR lined non-auto fitted 30193 was backdated to 197. Lining, crests and numbers were removed with enamel thinners then the cab/tank sides were sprayed with Tamiya black being sealed with Johnson's Kleer. The smoke box door number plate was gently carved off a sanded with a a glass fibre burnishing stick. Weathering has commenced with a coat of Tamiya NATO Black around the smokebox and cab roof. This has been further embellished with dry brushing of Citadel Gun Metal.
On the non-auto fitted examples cab doors were not fitted and these were successfully removed using a mini-drill, scalpel and sanding sticks/needle files as can be seen in the comparison photo below:
Weathering and crew are required to finish this pair off as is the work on Bachmann N Class 1853 which started life as a fully lined Maunsell green example which received the enamel thinners treatment. Halfords 'rattle can' satin black followed by the Tamiya NATO black for the smoke box, roof and tender completed the initial weathering. 1853 was shedded at Exmouth Junction post war and is finished accordingly awaiting reapplication of its smoke deflectors. I was fortunate enough to pick up a bargain copy of Peter Swift's 'Maunsell Moguls' from Trago Mills in Falmouth which has also been an invaluable source of information.
I was fortunate enough to acquire a couple of Mainly Trains/Iain Rice etched detailing kits which in this case include cab doors and fall plate:
Once more this project was influenced by Graham's work and can be seen in this article below about a post-war N Class that he did for Robin of A Nod To Brent fame:
https://grahammuz.com/2015/01/04/infiltrating-the-gwr-at-brent-or-a-repainted-and-weathered-n-class/
Finally I've a couple of the new Hornby post-war 'Bullied' cattle wagons but fancied an earlier 'Maunsell' version. Initially this was only available as a BR version (?Soon to be rectified) which I have acquired and resprayed in to SR brown'ish shades using Tamiya acrylics. .
I'd like to finish it in pre-war large SR script finish.Any ideas on lettering placement, particularly the end stock numbers? Are these as per the Bullied version?
Thanks once again to Graham for his input into these projects.
Cheers,
Mark
For those with an interest in the the Southern Railway's Withered Arm the recent release of Memories of the Withered Arm by Peter Barnfield (Wild Swan, 2016 is well worth a read.....
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