Some time ago, back on my RMweb3 workbench topic, I was working on a batch of sand tipplers which were destined for Stafford Railway Circle's New Haden Colliery layout, which is set in North Staffordshire in the late 1950s. The plan was to build about a dozen wagons; using the excellent Red Panda body only packs - at the time Mainly Trains were selling off their remaining stock of these at a discounted rate. With these I've used Parkside 9' wheelbase underframes to represent diagram 1/071 or 1/072 wagons, mostly in their original, unfitted, condition.

As ever, Paul Bartlett's excellent BR Wagon photos website and several of David Larkin's wagon books provided the prototype inspiration.

Below are the first three of these (posing on Foundry Lane) which already have two exhibitions under their wheels having appeared on New Haden at Holmfirth and Wolverhampton last year:

Since then (over Christmas and New Year) I've managed to complete the construction of the remaining nine wagons which are now awaiting paint. Brake and buffers were from the ABS range of castings which I've used on all of these (and also on my 16T mineral fleet):