wmdavies02 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Looking to build a layout in BR 1950's era based on the Mid Wales line. Can find lots of info on motive power but info on coaching stock is proving difficult to find. Help! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Have you checked out Robert Carroll's BR coaching stock Yahoo group? Membership can be fruitful. There is a 'dropbox' in which some members place documents for others to access. One there now is the carriage working programme for Central Wales in 1954 which gives details of the composition of passenger trains for the Mid Wales line. Most trains IIRC were formed of a brake third and brake composite, neither being in the first flush of youth. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Kidner's book on the Mid Wales Railway (Oakwood Press) has a few shots of 3-coach trains on the line though not really possible to make out composition. Mostly Collett corridor stock in early '50s augmented by Hawkesworth stock from mid '50s when the Ivatt moguls took over from the Dean Goods and others. Does anybody have carriage working books for that division/period? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Two-coach or an additional strengther to make 3, seems to be the message from these quickly googled pics, the last (and best) of which shows an early Collett Brake Compo and a late Collett Brake 3rd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhayader_station_with_local_Mid-Wales_line_train_geograph-2540449-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Llanidloes_station,_with_southbound_Mid-Wales_line_train_geograph-2540463-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moat_Lane_Junction_Station_2028276_b303249d.jpg Note the topfeed on the Dean Goods 2483. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmdavies02 Posted September 28, 2012 Author Share Posted September 28, 2012 Two-coach or an additional strengther to make 3, seems to be the message from these quickly googled pics, the last (and best) of which shows an early Collett Brake Compo and a late Collett Brake 3rd: http://en.wikipedia....-Brooksbank.jpg http://en.wikipedia....-Brooksbank.jpg http://en.wikipedia....76_b303249d.jpg Note the topfeed on the Dean Goods 2483. Thanks all, I am starting to get some very useful info Mike Davies Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Nice variety of coaches from late Toplights to 1937 Colletts. Even an ex-ROD tender on one of the Dean Goods! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2012 Nice variety of coaches from late Toplights to 1937 Colletts. Even an ex-ROD tender on one of the Dean Goods! It's not a Dean Goods - clearly numbered 893 it's an ex-Cambrian 15 Class Large Goods engine (I wonder if the tender might also be ex-Cambrian but with an added top rave as similar tenders appeared on a number of ex-Cambrian locos although most of them seem to have been 'dealt with' at Swindon about the time the early group of RODs were withdrawn) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardJones Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 It's not a Dean Goods - clearly numbered 893 it's an ex-Cambrian 15 Class Large Goods engine (I wonder if the tender might also be ex-Cambrian but with an added top rave as similar tenders appeared on a number of ex-Cambrian locos although most of them seem to have been 'dealt with' at Swindon about the time the early group of RODs were withdrawn) It's the standard Cambrian Tender for these locos with welded up coal rails. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Oh well, live and learn! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
newport_rod Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 BR 1950's era based on the Mid Wales line ... coaching stock It depends which part of the line but the usual formations (in 1954) were: Van third, Brake Compo Van third, Third, Brake Compo Van third, Compo Hope this helps Rod Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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