peregrine

Guys Final; question - I think! 9' or 10! wheelbase for the ironstone wagons?

Thank you everyone for all the fantastic answers. I love this hobby, where else could you learn about the different densities of iron ore native to different parts of England - fantastic. I will go with 7 plank I think. Thanks again.

Hi All This is my first post, so be gentle! I am coming back into RM after a 15 year absence. One of my plans for my layout is to have a good marshaling yard, with one of the industries sending trucks to it being a local ironstone quarry, (my fictitious layout will me near Banbury in the steam era late 20s early 30s). I have decided to give my quarry its own private owner wagons, so I plan to buy some old second wagons and repaint them and perhaps have a small tank engine too. So my question is about wagon types. My layout will be too early for the BR period specially designed mineral wagons, so all my reading points to standard wooden planked wagons. The information I cannot find is what size, ie how many planks. I am assuming 5, 6 or 7, but scouring the internet and all my books I cannot find an answer or even decent pictures of ironstone wagons. I am betting that someone on here will have an answer! Thanks in advance. Cheers Peregrine Nicholls