Photographing the rolling stock for this blog has made me rethink all the wagons that i have built. I have tended to just build things that interest me rather than thinkinging hard about what is appropriate. The wagons here fit clearly into my proposed traffic patterns but I notice Midland Mole has actualy sat down and worked out the rolling stock for each of his trains(along with the loco hauling it). This to me seems an eminantly sensible way to procedd so I will be making a start on this process which will then reveal all the wagons that no longer fit! The excess will be passed onto my friends Tony Wilkins (who need lots and lots of wagons for his new layout) and to John Jennison who is constructing a model of Gresty Lane,Crewe.
The same applies to the locomotive fleet, I have 4 times the quanity of locos that the layout needs, so the exercise of matching locos to wagons to trains should prove interesting.
2 locos that will definately be staying are 2 8fs, one being a Shrewsbury engine and the Fowler tender one being one of Staffords. The Shrewsbury 8F is a DJH kit and the Fowler tender on is a mixture of Comet chassis, Bachmann body and Brassmasters Fowler tender.