Pillar Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Does anyone know where I can find any further information on this wagon? So far all I've been able to find is a single photograph in David Larkin's 'BR Departmental Rolling Stock' (1979) and the BR diagram 1/569 on the Barrowmore mrg website. I'd be interested to find out the background of this design and hopefully pull together enough details for a model. Unftortunately it seems to have been rather obscure. Many thanks Liam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 All I know is the drawing in Don Rowland is wrong as it is not the BR built one! Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 All I know is the drawing in Don Rowland is wrong as it is not the BR built one! Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 The Diagram (not drawing) in DR book is the original issue by BR. They reissued it to correct it. The Barrowmore diagram is the later issue. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I have a copy of the Larkin book the OP refers to and my curiosity has also now been stoked! The photo shows an NER all-wooden vehicle numbered 74613 and makes reference to a BR-built batch of fifty 'Gudgeons' which were numbered DB990000-49, which immediately preceded the fifty 'Pilchard' bogie wagons (DB990050-99) with which we are now familiar thanks to the Oxford Rail model, of which I have just acquired an example which has partly prompted this further enquiry. So there were fifty built of each type - photos of 'Pilchards' exist so one would have expected one of two photos of 'Gudgeons' to exist too - but four years on nothing appears to have come to light. This makes me wonder whether the BR-built 'Gudgeons' suffered a design flaw serious enough to write them all off at an early stage...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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