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Seemed to have missed this thread resurrecting itself until now. Those timber P scratchbuilds look excellent Northern Maiden. I was going to have a go myself having now acquired the judith edge conflat P kit as a basis. Not sure if i'll post my build though after seeing yours . There's obviously more to these wagons than i thought! Toby

A kit! that would be great not sure my modelling skills are up to a scratchbuild although i'll have to curb my obsession to have a rake of them for some time! thanks again to everyone who has contributed. toby

wow guys! thanks for the great response! and i was thinking this would be a simple conversion of a plate wagon. Having never attempted a scratchbuild before i can see this is going to turn into quite a complicated operation. Having browsed through the prototype galleries recently i came across these two pictures of derailed timber P's in nicktuck159's west highland gallery http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/1265659144/gallery_7279_714_36172.jpg http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/1265659144/gallery_7279_714_63853.jpg toby

Hi I am considering attempting to scratchbuild some timber P wagon in 00 scale probably from a parkside dundas plate wagon kit. These wagons appear to be camera shy! Does anyone know of any good images of these wagons in books/magazines. Only found a few so far such as one in Don Rowlands 'British rail wagons' book. No luck on Paul Bartletts excellant wagon website unfortunately. toby

i have scoured the internet and literature in the past about this subject for my layout based on Fort William. For the 60/70s presflo wagons seem to have been used. i have read that prestwins were also used but i have seen no photographs. Many of the pictures of freight on West Highland show CovHop wagons as well. and one early steam era shows sloping sided wooden ex-LNER hoppers. I will drag out the references for the photographs if anyone is interested. Just to note the Locaber smelter was owned by the British Alumina Company until 1982. In terms of branding on the wagons i believe some presflo were labelled "Presflo Alumina" (again will hunt out the reference) Toby