Stoke Courtenay

[gwrrob]

2 hours ago, The Fatadder said:

Thats good to know, I quite fancy getting one of the kingsbridge wagon 

There’s a rather nice photo of the Kingsbridge coal wagon in an early newsletter by the Great Western Study Group. Researched by Steve Manchip , maybe @RapidoCorbs could do it for us in their range.

[checkrail]

Robin @gwrrob, please tell us more about the Kingsbridge coal wagon. It's a new one on me.

 

John.

[Coach bogie]

2 hours ago, checkrail said:

Robin @gwrrob, please tell us more about the Kingsbridge coal wagon. It's a new one on me.

 

John.

Beer and Co

 

Image and description here.

 

Mike Wiltshire

 

https://kingswearinp4.weebly.com/goods-stock.html

[gwrrob]

2 hours ago, checkrail said:

Robin @gwrrob, please tell us more about the Kingsbridge coal wagon. It's a new one on me.

 

John.

 

Certainly John @checkrail although my photos were lost in the RMweb crash. POWsides do a six plank wagon , Beer and Co. of Kingsbridge, a local coal merchant with the option of two running numbers [No1 and 2 ] in both transfers and kit. There's a very nice advert somewhere .

 

https://www.powsides.co.uk/search.php/kingsbridge

[gwrrob]

Found it but don't try ringing the number to order some coal... 🤣

 

[checkrail]

2 hours ago, Coach bogie said:

Beer and Co

 

Image and description here.

Wow! What a layout.  Thanks for alerting me to it.  Who's the writer?  I see that he bought it in fairly embryonic form but has made a lot of progress with it since.  This is Pendon-standard stuff isn't it? 

[checkrail]

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

POWsides do a six plank wagon , Beer and Co. of Kingsbridge, a local coal merchant with the option of two running numbers [No1 and 2 ] in both transfers and kit.

Thanks Robin. I've seen a 'Beer & Co.' wagon somewhere on a layout in the past but hadn't connected it with Kingsbridge. I note that the POWsides listing describes it as 6 plank but uses a Slater's 7 plank as a base, presumably because there's no kit or RTR 6 plank item available?  In spite of my stern remonstrations to self about no more PO wagons I'd find one of these impossible to resist if a RTR model appeared.

[checkrail]

While on the subject of PO wagons can anyone tell me what the lettering/symbols on the axleboxes of all three of my new Rapido items signify?

John C.

[The Fatadder]

34 minutes ago, checkrail said:

Wow! What a layout.  Thanks for alerting me to it.  Who's the writer?  I see that he bought it in fairly embryonic form but has made a lot of progress with it since.  This is Pendon-standard stuff isn't it? 

It was started by the late Mike Casey many years back (I think It featured in MRJ at some point?). He also had many top quality locos and coaches built for it (roecar etc).   From memory the layout was built in a former indoor swimming pool!

 

At the time it was sold (not that long before I started Brent) I made serious enquires about purchasing it, before deciding that the layout was far too big for my garage and unfortunately it would not be a viable proposition 

[Miss Prism]

1 hour ago, checkrail said:

While on the subject of PO wagons can anyone tell me what the lettering/symbols on the axleboxes of all three of my new Rapido items signify?

 

'Gloucester', for a box made by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.

 

[checkrail]

2 hours ago, Miss Prism said:

'Gloucester', for a box made by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.

Thanks Miss P.  Even expanding the pic to max. and looking through the bottom of my varifocals and a hand-held magnifier I couldn't make that out. So well done Rapido for including such microscopically fine detail (which I'm afraid is now about to be obliterated with matt black).  

[Coach bogie]

5 hours ago, checkrail said:

Wow! What a layout.  Thanks for alerting me to it.  Who's the writer?  I see that he bought it in fairly embryonic form but has made a lot of progress with it since.  This is Pendon-standard stuff isn't it? 

There are several videos on Youtube that are well worth watching. The background scenery is superb. You forget it is a model.

 

https://www.youtube.com/@kingswearinp414/videos

 

Mike Wiltshire

[checkrail]

Nice weekend in Bridgnorth and day out with son and grandsons at the SVR spring steam gala on Sunday.  Shame 'Betton Grange' couldn't make it but 'Hagley Hall' and 'Erlestoke Manor' were looking great, as was the Stanier mogul and the delightful 'Fenchurch'.

 

Here are son and grandson getting in the way as 4930 runs into Bewdley.

 

 

But for me the best bit was the wonderful train of GWR carriages of various types.  Lovely to see the real things after a few years of occasional kit building and peering at old photographs.

 

We actually rode in the set of Stanier LMS coaches on Sunday, but that was no loss.  As Steve Forbert sang, "Driving a Jaguar's impressive, but you cain't see it go by ..."

 

Now back to those new PO wagons. 

 

John C.

[Hal Nail]

Was the GWR set in use? They had some problems because they aren't slam door - you have to actually turn the handle. People arent used to it so doors got left open and last year they were withdrawn but I don't know if that's been resolved.

[Fair Oak Junction]

10 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

Was the GWR set in use? They had some problems because they aren't slam door - you have to actually turn the handle. People arent used to it so doors got left open and last year they were withdrawn but I don't know if that's been resolved.

 

It was in use yes. I watched Erlestoke breeze down Eardington Bank with the set on Saturday, which was nice to see.

[checkrail]

11 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

Was the GWR set in use?

Yep, so hopefully problems were resolved. There was some national media coverage of this issue recently in relation to preserved lines in general.  Here's the train at Bewdley. It's some yesrs since I visited the SVR so it was great to walk along the train looking at each vehicle before it moved off.  The Hawksworth coach in the foreground is of course the youngest in the rake.

 

John C.

[checkrail]

Following the work on the wheels and couplings I painted the insides of the new Rapido PO wagons with Revell matt black and tested them in the coal empties train.

 

 

All was well so I toned down the outsides and underframes using Vallejo black wash, applied in downward strokes with a flat brush. In one or two places where the white lettering resisted the wash I added a little Humbrol black weathering powder.  

 

Ah, that's better.

 

John C.

 

[checkrail]

A couple more of the coal empties train passing through the station.

 

 

I do like PO wagons. I keep saying I have enough but somewhere in a drawer I still have two old Trix 'Ocean' wagon bodies and a couple of Cambrian 1923 RCH underframe kits as well as a set of POWsides transfers for Tirpentwys (later badged T P and P).

 

John C.

[Nick Gough]

17 hours ago, checkrail said:

Nice weekend in Bridgnorth and day out with son and grandsons at the SVR spring steam gala on Sunday.  Shame 'Betton Grange' couldn't make it but 'Hagley Hall' and 'Erlestoke Manor' were looking great, as was the Stanier mogul and the delightful 'Fenchurch'.

 

Here are son and grandson getting in the way as 4930 runs into Bewdley.

 

 

But for me the best bit was the wonderful train of GWR carriages of various types.  Lovely to see the real things after a few years of occasional kit building and peering at old photographs.

 

We actually rode in the set of Stanier LMS coaches on Sunday, but that was no loss.  As Steve Forbert sang, "Driving a Jaguar's impressive, but you cain't see it go by ..."

 

Now back to those new PO wagons. 

 

John C.

Thought I was looking at photos of Stoke Courtenay for a moment!

[checkrail]

Now 8709 approaches on the down line with a pick-up goods including the new Renwick Wilton wagon by Rapido.  Same treatment as the other two but with the addition of a removable coal load.  The little rubber blocks that come as part of the Rapido packaging were just the job as a base for making these. Bit of card glued on top and some Peco coal glued on that with PVA.

 

 

 

John C.

[Nick Gough]

On 23/04/2024 at 22:43, Hal Nail said:

Was the GWR set in use? They had some problems because they aren't slam door - you have to actually turn the handle. People arent used to it so doors got left open and last year they were withdrawn but I don't know if that's been resolved.

The SVR has a design to modify the existing locks.

Several coaches have been fitted with the modified locks in recent months. Further ones will be done in due course.

 

There are a number of GWR coaches on the Valley that already have slam locks because the GWR bought some from an outside maker in the late '20s/early '30s, but then reverted to the old type until BR days.

 

 

Edited April 24 by Nick Gough
Autocorrect strikes again!!

[Dragonboy]

I think it’s more Auto corrupt than correct at times Nick

[gwrrob]

On 17/04/2024 at 10:39, gwrrob said:

There’s a rather nice photo of the Kingsbridge coal wagon in an early newsletter by the Great Western Study Group. Researched by Steve Manchip , maybe @RapidoCorbs could do it for us in their range.

 

Further to this info John @checkrail I've tracked down the issue it was in and there's also a rather nice photo of Kingsbridge yard on the cover.😎

 

[checkrail]

12 hours ago, gwrrob said:

a rather nice photo of Kingsbridge yard on the cover.😎

Thanks Robin.  Nice variety of wagons in that photo. What date do you think it is?

[gwrrob]

18 minutes ago, checkrail said:

Thanks Robin.  Nice variety of wagons in that photo. What date do you think it is?

Nearer to your layout timeframe than mine, I’d say the 1920’s.