Perhaps these (I don't have the book either):

 

In March 1957, 20 x 20T Hoppers (LMS Type, ex iron Ore) were lettered "Empty to Helston WR"

 

They were used on "Serpentine" Stone traffic to Oughtibridge Silica Firebrick Company Ltd at Steetley ER. 100 tons was passing weekly

in these bottom discharge hoppers.

 

Wagons:

M690288/314/670/691/729

M691015/122/067/117/293/397/440/537/580/597/632/715/726/764/892

Perhaps these (I don't have the book either):

 

In March 1957, 20 x 20T Hoppers (LMS Type, ex iron Ore) were lettered "Empty to Helston WR"

 

They were used on "Serpentine" Stone traffic to Oughtibridge Silica Firebrick Company Ltd at Steetley ER. 100 tons was passing weekly

in these bottom discharge hoppers.

 

Wagons:

M690288/314/670/691/729

M691015/122/067/117/293/397/440/537/580/597/632/715/726/764/892

Thanks all for the response. These are definitely the ones, they are to Diagram D1941 just hope that I can find a 7mm kit.

 

Regards

 

Mike

 

edit to include Diagram Number

Thanks Johnster for your kind comments re the point rodding. I just have to summon the will to produce

more for the station throat, which will require more cranks, and crossing of running lines. I have concluded that

I am probably right in thinking that Facing Point Locks would only apply to passenger lines, so 2 on 1st point after

bridge, and loco shed access. Does anybody know the dimensions of their "covers"?

 

Recent work has been done around the mill, including additional trees, so the ford and farm track are now shaded by trees.

One seemed a little thin in the middle, so a fallen (dead) branch was added. These trees have also cocussed the

photo opportunities. This area is getting much more towards what I had envisaged, although I already have ideas to

replace this board, with one based on a Forest of Dean location. We'll see.

 

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The cottages from station road are finally absent from the layout, gaining footpaths, fencing, and hopefully

ironmongery.

Tony, according to David J Smith's superb book on GWR switch and crossing practice, FPL covers spanned seven sleepers/timbers and were 13' 4" long. The slope at each end was 2' 2" and the flat centre part, which was hinged on one side to give access to the FPL itself, was therefore 9' 0" long. There was a supporting bracket at each end of the flat part and at its centre . The flat part stood 7.5" above sleeper level and the whole thing was 1' 4" wide.

 

Personally I think I will keep them at or below rail level.

Were you aware that RT Models provides an etch for pannier tank sandbox pull rods : 

GWR 6ton Crane and Match Truck

by: Cambrian model rail

Ref: C5

 

The purpose of these pictures is to show how I built the crane as the instructions are minimal with some unclear pictures included.

Most of the instructions are written with the pieces not identified on the sprues, perhaps here numbering them on the sprues and referring to that would help considerably during the build.

This is my interpretation of the construction, pictures and information is very sparse on this model so built using a bit of builders license is needed at times.

 

Starting

 

 

 

No wheels come with the model so I brought some from Cambrian.

 

Next all the bits laid out, minimal flash but quite a few bits with mould lines where the two halves haven't quite lined up - fiddly but sortable

 

 

 

Next after the wagon builds these are all the pieces for the crane cleaned up.

 

 

The match truck and crane underframe where simple builds so I will just include some pictures for guidance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now for the crane itself

I shan't describe a blow for blow build rather show each sub stage as I progressed and hopefully you can work out the pieces needed

 

 

 

 

 

Just would like to point out on the last two pictures that the 'T' support was only glued on one side of the T so I could pull the sides apart to get the cross rods in easier.

 

 

 

The crane assembly stood on the underframe only

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately at this point if was difficult to take pictures of the jib construction because you had to hold, glue, line up, setting of glue which left no hands to take a pictures.

The following one is all I have showing lining up wasn't easy

 

 

Filing and filler needed.....

 

 

Jib in place once ready to check alignment.

 

Crane hook fixing lug copied from Chuffinghell (Warren Branch) (white bit) as I thought - that's a good idea.

 

 

Happy, now fixed.

 

 

 

 

And ready to be fitted, mine is fixed in place so it was glued to the underframe

 

 

 

Hope this helps any one planning to build this rather unusual by lovely model.

Not sure if this is the right place to poste this as only the people following LM will see it, any ideas where this could also be posted?

 

More pictures to follow in the next day or two of the competed model, might even be seen behind a loco somewhere!!!!

 

 

 

The last in this glut of blog entries for my historic projects, but one i hope to continue working on soon!

 

This has been a long running 'improvement' saga. Take one pair of Airfix B-Set coaches. Attempt to turn into a representation of the real thing. The body is correctly dimensioned but so many details are wrong. So far I've:

 

- blocked off the incorrect extra guard's window on the left hand side
- carved off the end detail and replaced the emergency brake gear on the outer ends only
- carved off the old grab rails and door handles, dug out the pockets and put in wire replacements
- re-done the under frame, relocating the battery boxes and correcting the brake cylinder pull rods and V-hangers for a hand braked vehicle, replacing the headstocks with straight ones, carving the buffers at inner end to be a representation of short buffers, replacing the outer end ones with long square shank buffer castings

 

Still to do:

 

detail the bogies
spring the outer end buffers (i.e. replace them)
add the guards steps to the under frame
paint the under frame
flush glaze
add number / guard / luggage / max weight decals, numbered for a Bristol area set
make a 'fixed' close coupling and join the pair to make a B-Set

 

Many thanks to Tim Venton of Clutton fame for the information required to do this detailing exercise (not the first to be shown on RMWeb)

 

more photos to follow as I complete this - can't wait to see them run in service!

 

(and then I want to do another conversion to as built condition in 1930 ... all those grab handle pockets :-( )

 

PS - an interesting feature of the door handle pockets is they run into the body side from the door - I didn't realise this until seeing a shot in the famous branchline trip shot by John Betjeman where he is seen stepping out of a B-set coach - the door handle pocket is clearly seen to run off the door edge.

 

side view, brake to right. Battery boxes on this side , guards window

 

 

side view, brake to left. Battery regulator, dynamo and 'stepped out' V-hanger, no guards window

 

 

under frame view with added truss angles (there were four).

 

 

Just wait now for Hornby to issue an upgraded model for £50 a piece!!

 

I wrote a little article to tell all I knew about the B-Sets and upgrading the model with much reference to Tim Venton:

 

(converted it to a .pdf so the system would accept it!)

 

 

 

 

BsetE140.pdf

Hi all,

 

I thought this would be a quick upgrade project!

 

I got a bargain diagram O33 Lima Siphon G at an exhibition last year. When I got home, I checked what GWR.org say on it - incorrect bogies - well that should be easy. Looking in the Siphon Bible by Jack Slinn, it could be one of four types with 9' Pressed Steel making up 75% of them. Many of them were converted to other types after WWII so watch out for that. O59 is easy - just add shell vents x11. M34 is shell vents + plated over Louvres.

 

The Lima body has wider planks than normal. There is a side on official photo of 2937 with this arrangement in Russell's Coaches Appendix volume 2. It also has a different brake arrangement (lever v Lima's DC brake) but has the Pressed steel bogies.

 

So my course of action is

Rebogie

Modify undergubbins 

Repaint

 

I got some Bachmann 36-010 Collett bogies and first reduced the length of 16 footboards to be just footsteps.

 

Problem 1: I then realised that the mounting arrangement was different. So I removed the middle pivot of the old and new bogies.  I added two small 40thou bits of plastic under where the pivot meets the side frame on the new ones and then glued the Lima pivot under that to get the height right.

 

Problem 2: Lima used 3' wheels whereas Bachmann have the correct 3'6" wheels - the new wheel flanges scrape on the floor of the Siphon. I cut out some serious chunks of floor out to give the wheels somewhere to swing - making sure the floor pivot wasn't affected. Problem solved

 

The bogie at one end now fouled the DC brake handles - it needs to go anyway. If you are modelling one of the earlier DC brakes versions, I would suggest using shorter bogies like the 7' wb heavy types on 2057-2070.

 

Remove the DC brake and move the dynamo to the other end. Add a V hanger from the spares box and add a couple of lever brakes - with shortened levers. I made the shorter still to prevent the bogies damaging them.

 

Repaint - as 2937 is a 1945 build, no white roof, and roof colour to gutter, not rain strip.

 

Square blob of plastic for the label clip right in the middle of the side. Transfers - this type have tare weight 26.11.0.

 

I thought it would take an evening and it probably took three - not perfect but a reasonable "layout coach" for about £20.

 

 

Shown here with the original Lima above.

Just noticed I need white brake handles and blue axlebox tops!

 

Thanks for reading

 

Will