vacuum cylinder type for Dia P22 Python?

[lofty1966]

I'm currently kitbashing a Ian Kirk Python kit into a Dia P22 version.

Can anyone tell me what type or have a pic of the Vacuum brake cylinder please?

Central actuating lever or Churchward style, one each side?

Fanx

[K14]

Official photo of No. 4 in Russell's Coaches Appendix Vol 2 (Fig 556).

 

Vac cylinder not visible, but likely to be conventional 18" piston; positioning probably the same as P.14 & P.19:—

https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/misc_bsa&singer181.htm

 

Lever offset to right of doorway, asymmetrical V-hangers on both sides of doorway.

Dual Braked - Vac & Westinghouse Air.

Self-contained buffers

Bodyside windows flush-glazed.

Gas lit.

 

 

 

Pete S.

Edited April 10, 2020 by K14

[lofty1966]

3 hours ago, K14 said:

Official photo of No. 4 in Russell's Coaches Appendix Vol 2 (Fig 556).

 

Vac cylinder not visible, but likely to be conventional 18" piston; positioning probably the same as P.14 & P.19:—

https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/misc_bsa&singer181.htm

 

Lever offset to right of doorway, asymmetrical V-hangers on both sides of doorway.

Dual Braked - Vac & Westinghouse Air.

Self-contained buffers

Bodyside windows flush-glazed.

Gas lit.

 

 

 

Pete S.

Thanx for the input Pete.

I have several pix of P22's just can't make out the brake  Vacuum arrangement as pics either on the gas cylinder side or too dark to make out the arrangement .

Went with this set up in the end.

[K14]

Reckon you're pretty much there with the undergubbins - don't forget to dual-pipe it though :)

 

One thing that does scream to me is the bolections. P22's didn't have them as built - the glass was held in by a thin steel plate 3 boards wide, similar to this on 565 at Didcot:—

 

 

Also peering at the rather dim photo in Russell, I spy two gas lamp tops roughly dividing the roof into three.

 

P.