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This is another one of those projects where there is little if anything left of the original at the end of which we are so fond. Hope this is the start of the mojo coming back…

Nick Tilston (N brass Locos) offers screw link couplings in both easy (single part) and masochist (kit) forms.

@Sithlord75 I’ve already made Ian’s file(s) into something that takes the basic fold up of 2-363 without modifying the print for my own use. I think I can email them to you. GWR cattle wagons were in and out of the common user pool (mostly out). W1, W2 and W3 had ordinary lever brakes. That makes them easier? Many/Most/All? W1 were rebuilt with DC3 vacuum (W5).

I’m excited for this thread. You will need at least one more horsebox to recreate the train in the picture though - I count 7!

Wizard models and others sell one that - if memory serves - Bill Bedford has etched. However It is possible to make any one off bespoke size by marking the handrail spacing from the edge of a sheet, drill, insert bent wire and bend around the edge of the sheet.

No one has seized the business opportunity and does transfers for NSLR numbers yet?

Tatlow (the blue one - NPCS drawings) has the answer? I’d guess at brown, like the varnished version of whatever wood they used for coaches.

The brass chairs are great. I’ve found they sometimes need a little bit off the underside of the base to match up well with the plastic/etched chairs. You can easily measure how much by threading rail and measuring over the total height of rail in chair with calipers.

@Compound2632 is the person who I think would know the last detail about MR wagons and in the event that he does not he would know where to find the answer.

I believe it’s an N gauge society kit also sold by the 2mmSA. If that is the case the NGS describe it as a twin pack because when sold by them it contains only 2 chassis. The explanation given in the NGS literature ~20 years ago was that this kept the price down and that a third wagon could be produced with a separate purchase of an additional chassis.

I don’t believe you would have to scratch build the Jubilee and Stanier tank in 2mm. Enquire to @Nig H about his range of kits.

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I have some circular baseboards in 6 pieces going spare but from memory the dimensions are a bit smaller than what you are drawing I think the diameters are 3’ internal and 5’ external.

I got a little but not much further with a 72xx. The two small panels don’t completely fill the space. There are some complex curves left as an exercise for the builder. The wider of the two pieces curves up and out from the lower portion of the bunker to the extension and the narrow part is bent to shape, fitting in the gap between the top pieces. The lamp iron was in that recessed area. Other GWR engines with similar shaped bunkers had the same basic features, e.g. large prairies, and pictures of these might be easier to find.

I remember fervently re-visiting the article on this in my Dad’s small collection of RM. My feeling back then was that the article was far too short. The pictures were certainly inspirational though. It looks like it can continue to have a good life after some care to bring it back to operating condition. It will looks so much better with rail of half the height!

It should do: I’ve built 18’ wheelbase 6 wheeled stock that goes through 1:6 crossings with 10’ switches and somewhere in the wilds there are a good number of 20/21’ wheelbase coach chassis that no-one has complained about, yet*. These were all fixed chassis. *I know for certain some have been built.

Kevin, I’m interested to know why you decided to etch the bodies, rather than print them?

During WWI

The sides need some further tweaking - when I find the 3/4 view photos again - but this will add some variety to the livestock train that’s in progress (for over a year).

and perhaps not to anyone else.

There’s an illustration of the Ltd at Pendon (above the sea wall). It has a date of 1912 if memory serves. The coaches are in lake livery. I noted the types of coach and the destinations on one visit as follows: Main portion (all 70ft): van 3rd, C, R, C, van 3rd, Other portions with destinations as per roof boards: 70ft C Bk (for Falmouth), 70ft double slip C, 57ft van C (for Exeter and Torquay), 57ft double slip (for Taunton & Ilfracombe), 57ft Van C (for Minehead), 70ft double slip, 57ft single slip (Weymouth) where Bk = brake, C = composite, R = restaurant. I didn’t try to identify the diagrams.

I thought that initially but am convinced there are only 2 wheels on the near side of the vehicle based on the shadow positions.

Most interested in c, When I looked up Jackson’s art supplies there are three results, 2 in London and the site at Putney Bridge looks like it has several ’coffee‘ places on the opposite side of the road.

Nor I. Whilst the location of the GW above the number on each edge is the arrangement arrived at following the 1919 circular from the REC the characters on this example look like they rely on the letters and numbers to hand however the product was created rather than what appears in photographs. The G is quite obviously not circular enough and all are far too thick. Source: Great Western Way (3rd), Appendix 13.

That sheet includes the ‘sail’. A design that predates the one on @magmouse wagon.