GW AA3 timber veranda brakes.

[jim.snowdon]

On 17/11/2022 at 17:02, Miss Prism said:

 

The Didcot specimen has been rebuilt about half a dozen times since preservation. Nothing about its pre-preserved state can be assumed (apart from the solebars, maybe!)

 

This old-timer has had a pre-nationalisation verandah upgrade. There probably weren't many AA3s left at that time.

 

But would its owner have gone so far as to unplate the body framing and verandah? And that was in the era before the GWS started building locomotives.

 

The answer, I suspect, is 'unlikely', but then, who can tell.

[K14]

10 hours ago, jim.snowdon said:

But would its owner have gone so far as to unplate the body framing and verandah?

 

No/Yes. The verandah got done in unplaned softwood, the bodyside panels were left alone - replacing these is likely to be a major job, as they're usually a bit more involved than mere steel cladding.

 

10 hours ago, jim.snowdon said:

The answer, I suspect, is 'unlikely', but then, who can tell.

 

Me for one, I remember seeing it happening - c.1990-1992 ish.

 

Pete S.

 

C&W Dept. GWS Didcot (Lapsed).

[Artless Bodger]

On 19/11/2022 at 00:21, The Johnster said:

Yes, that makes more sense, but a horse-drawn mobile crane would be a lively thing to model!  

https://www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/mrroad.htm

 

Midland Railway road crane at Buckingham Railway Centre - I knew I'd seen a photo of one somewhere.

 

Compound2632 probably can elucidate further.