JerryO Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Have acquired three Cambrian C6 (SR 12T 8 Plank Open D1379) part finished wagon kits. The wagons are complete apart from the brakegear is missing and still require transfers. Does anyone have a copy of info/instructions that go with the kit so I can determine brake arrangement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigwelsh Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Have you asked Cambrian http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/user/1085-karabuni/ ? The prototype had independent ('Freighter' as the Southern called them) brakes to the normal RCH design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryO Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 Thanks for confirmation. The Picture in the Cambrian website did seem to indicate independent brakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karabuni Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 The earlier SR 8 planks had independent brakes. It is suggested in the SR Wagons Book (Vol. 4) that this may have been due to an unwillingness to pay royalties for the Morton brake system. Later wagons did have Morton brakes, e.g. D1400, but this was 10ft. wheelbase (forthcoming kit C96). Instructions for the 9ft. 8 plank can be downloaded from our website: SR 8 plank pdf ** (should display in your browser window if it usually displays pdfs, otherwise it will either download, or open in the bloated Adobe Reader) All kit instructions will be available as pdfs from our website in the next couple of months, as it's quite easy to save them in pdf format, but at the moment there isn't an index page done for them, and the person (me) who saved those already done didn't give them web-friendly file names. * * This is the most recent version for the revised body moulding that has the headstocks moulded with the end of the body. Barry, Cambrian Models Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryO Posted November 17, 2010 Author Share Posted November 17, 2010 Barry, Thanks for the link to pdf on website. It answers my other issues on markings and numbering. These were part built by the late Peter George with the intention to run on the Lee-on-the-Solent P4 Layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryO Posted March 9, 2011 Author Share Posted March 9, 2011 Got there eventually. One of the three completed wagons, with Dingham couplings fitted and sprung axles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Anyone know of any photo(s) of these wagons in use as spoil wagons by BR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Anyone know of any photo(s) of these wagons in use as spoil wagons by BR? They didn't last long as spoil wagons, after problems with the swing doors hitting trains on adjacent running lines, and were branded 'Not To Be Used For Spoil' fairly early on. A lot went to the SR M&EE's department as cable carriers. All the shots of Departmental wagons on Paul B's site seem to bear this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 They didn't last long as spoil wagons, after problems with the swing doors hitting trains on adjacent running lines, and were branded 'Not To Be Used For Spoil' fairly early on. A lot went to the SR M&EE's department as cable carriers. All the shots of Departmental wagons on Paul B's site seem to bear this out. Yes, I agree, I cannot recollect any as spoil wagons (although I wasn't exactly going out regularly looking for such things in the 1960s - but the rake of spoil that were underneath the road bridge at the south end of Staines Central didn't have any. http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/sropenmerch/h3dc9881f#h3dc9881f There are a couple of the cable carriers in this collection, and more of the 10ft wb version http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/sropenmerch Paul Bartlett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Thanks - according to the kit DS26996 was one of the spoil wagon (it does refer to the accident and subsequent banning - anyone know the date of that?) while by 1968 DS29925 only had one set of brakegear with 2 levers. Refers to metal capping on top edge being fitted around 1950 and I was wondering how noticeable that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS239 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Shouldn't the solebars,being steel,be painted black? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Not according to the instructions for the kit. Bixley et al say Brown - ie body colour - for solebars and headstocks on SR, with black for running gear. Paul Bartlett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Shouldn't the solebars,being steel,be painted black? I suspect that was a BR thing. Mind you, shouldn't the headstocks be brown? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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