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Might be worth keeping an eye on your wallets this week... spoke to Accurascale today about my payment for the exclusive LNER J68 7027 and they've confirmed the £139.99 will be coming out of my bank account on Thursday.

I wouldn't say there's a need for ASO. Second stock always turns up. You just have to patient sometimes...

Another arrival from Rapido!! The GWR modeller is being spoilt rotten with the GWR V14, V16, O11 and O15! 😁

Cheers, my aim is to focus on Set's 3, 4 and 5. Possibly 2 but I doubt it.

I have initiated my purchases of these with GWR 3751 today! An amazing model and I look forward to seeing the others. A question, can anyone tell me the eras that each of the six sets would work with please (in particular the GWR ones)?

Thank you, that's the one I was referring to in my post earlier. With that in mind roughly 12 twelve years service the vans gave Cadbury then. Whether they were withdrawn by the LMS or BR is another question.

This is speculation but looking in the background of one of the photos on the Transport Library website, there are photos of several ex-NER examples and possibly a Caledonian one in the very back but I cannot say for certain if it's Caledonian or not. The date of the photos is around 4/3/61 so if the van in the background is indeed a CR Dia.67, we can say the vans at least had 6 years service with Cadbury prior to them being donated to the fledging Severn Valley Railway in June 1967. I would suggest that like many pre-grouping wagons, the Caledonian Vans that went to Cadbury with withdrawn from possibly BR service in the mid-50s or maybe earlier. There is another photo where a CR Van is in the background but I cannot put my hand on it. All I know is the loco in front which is the No 10 Saddle Tank.

I know of this photo of one Dia.67 in a goods in LBSCR territory.

If the top one did go to Brechin, there is only a chassis left now sadly... Photo belonging to Allan Jenkins.

I've been waiting for the Caledonian Vans for years so I am not complaining at all. And you're right, we've never had it so good 😁

I suspect they were used to inspect the contents inside the van without opening the main door.

I suspect it was cut up. Four of the five preserved examples are now based in Scotland. Former SVR vans 302080 & 304543 are now at Ferryhill in Aberdeen and 73004 & 73007 are at Bo'ness. The only example still in England is the OMB907 example at Rutland. There was a fifth example at the Caledonian Railway but last photo I saw, it was now missing the body.

Yes I can answer that. 73007 - Date of build is unknown. 2080 - Approx build date is around 1910. 73804 - Van is identical to the example in Caledonian Wagons. Example in the book is 73814 but still the same van. 73814 was built in 1917 so I'd expect 73804 is around the same period too. 4543 - Approx build date is around 1910.

Of the four examples that joined the Severn Valley Railway (infact they were the first wagons to join if I'm correct) in 1967, I would say 266/304543 was the longest one to bear the Cadbury livery. For how long, I am not certain. Eventually it was repainted into LMS Bauxite and that is the livery it beared until leaving the SVR along with 302080 for Ferryhill where they still are today. Remarkably for timber framed wagons they are still hanging on somehow. Looking at the old stock books, 2080/302080 was the first to be repainted into CR livery and subsequently into the post-1936 livery. 302080 is seen in Bauxite livery during the shunting scene at Arley in the God's Wonderful Railway drama. At somepoint after that it must have been repainted into LMS grey but I wouldn't know when. The other two, (268/300682 and 269/307455) from what I have seen as per photos on Flickr and during my research of Caledonian Vans were never repainted. Eventually the two were cut down to be used as flatbed wagons and once they served their use they were broken up.

In the meantime there's an 812 😊

I know they were in use until the late 1960s. The 266 example is former SVR resident 304543 which is now at Ferryhill in Aberdeen.

Only a white metal kit from Wizard Models that's about 20 years old now. I think this is going to be a good seller!!

Will Brent be welcoming some Rapido Caledonian Railway Vans? 😉 Rapido

I can die happy 😁 Iron Mink, LNWR Dia.88 and now CR Dia.67. What's next? 😁 The Bachmann 812 has got wagons to work with at last!!

Time to re-activate this thread for post-war liveries! I've picked up tonight an interesting negative of GWR 1361 Class member 1361 at Bridgwater on the 6/9/48. My question is what is 1361's livery as only the letters G and W (rather than GWR) on the saddle tank. Any thoughts please?

If no one wants their LTD Rapido Iron Mink let me know :D

Another good negative win tonight of 15102 tonight!

Erm... is the answer one of these knows how to shunt, and the other doesn't, plus had a tribute song dedicated to them by this lot?

Got my hands on 7120 and sister 7128 yesterday. Really pleased with duo :) Only got 7128 briefly today as busy.

LMS 7120 was unfortunately not preserved. 7120 was withdrawn on the 25/01/1969 and cut up at Cashmore's (Great Bridge) in May 1970. The '7120' seen at the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway in a photo from around 2002 is in fact the War Department example WD 70272/AD 601 (aka 878 Basra from the LMR). Unfortunately the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway don't help by claiming their Class 11 is LMS 7120 when infact this isn't the case.