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I ask if with this BB fitted, and DCC, you have functions in addition to direction, speed. Like lights and horns? Do you perchance have a sound decoder? How were these things wired, please? seanmcs

I found that the axles on these coaches are only 25.7mm long. Inserting a 26mm axle meant it locked up. Happily an earlier contributor found that if you removed the centre rubber friction wheel from the DCC bearing reamers, he could still remove enough material to allow free wheel movement. I think the brakes could be rebuilt in a more suitable location. More often now these RTR brakes are easily removed and reinstated wider. seanmcs

Most helpful. Thank you. seanmcs

Just trying to connect a few dots with the 1927-1931 9' wheelbase LNER Cattle Wagon: - Were the LNER wheels 8 open spoke - Are the Oxford springs and W-irons correct. Looking at the photos in the excellent Steve banks site, three springs look correct. Very skinny. Thanks in anticipation of insight.

I now see the problem. If you look at cattle wagons from a Great Western point of view, you see that the GWR wagons have lettering S, M and L indicating the location of the movable partition. Obviously the lettering on both sides need to correspond. Hence it is no great leap of imagination to expect that the LNER size label would also correspond! But not the case it seems from expert research and observation. The fine work done on the conversion and the resource on the three aspects of these wagons is truly rich. I thank the writers for such fine application. For my Wiltshire GWR layout set in the mid 1930s I was wanting a good smattering of foreign horseboxes, cattle wagons, and POs. These Oxford wagons, if the underframe is replaced to accomodate P4 and incorporating springing are quite attractive. As I'm getting on I frankly need a few short cuts, so with the cattle wagons might not switch one side around at all, as only one side will be viewed. It's a long shelf layout close to eye level. Thanks again for the generous education, as I have no LNER archive.

Nile: I think you can be misled by the fact that your Hatton's pictures show two views at first of the same side. Look more carefully and you will see that one image shows LARGE on the left, and another LARGE on the right, as it should be. I asked Hatton's and they sent images of the more authentic model with no lime, exactly the same. So, it seems, error corrected. A spiffy model. Highly suitable for P4. seanmcs

Well, I've offered to send a couple of pix of a recent nice Oxford LNER Cattle Wagon to a member if he would send me an email to which I could reply. I cannot master the RMWEB picture upload on a Mac. Anyone else willing to take a look? My email: seanmcs@iprimus.com.au I'll send you the pix and maybe you can penetrate the pix routine on this site. Best. seanmcs if no interest - fine. These little Foreign cattle trucks will be a delight on the layout of Wiltshire in mid-1930s. Probably a change of wheels to P4, and a bit of weathering. Really quite fine. I could not achieve those standards in a kit por selfbuilt. Details excluded. Best seanmcs

Miklner: Thanks but maybe because of Apple, I can't follow that routine. Please send me an email to: seanmcs@iprimius.com.au and if you agree, I'll email the photos to you and kindly post them for me. Thanks. seanmcs

I'm an Apple user and used to sliding photos onto messages. I have good photos of both sides of the revised Oxford LENR cattle wagons we looked at on Sunday in our P4 group. But they won't stick to this message. Any ideas, please? seanmcs

Sorry, the batteries on my old Panasonic died in one case and the other is red danger. But I think I got the pictures on the brain. And I need to find out how to upload the pictures to this site. Best

I just bought a couple of these wagons from Cheltenham Model Centre, and they are correctly liveried. In other words, no need to cut and fill, repaint nor re-lebel seanmcs.