More Pre-Grouping Wagons in 4mm - the D299 appreciation thread.
Having some time on my hands, I have been working my way through my stash of 4mm scale wagon kits, starting with some pre-grouping examples. As may be evident, my enthusiasm is for the Midland Railway, so first up, a couple of Midland wagons: an 8 ton high-sided wagon to D299 (left) and an 8 ton low-sided goods wagon to D305 (right).
These are both built from Slater’s kits, nice and straightforward so long as one is aware of the major pitfall with the D299: if the sides a
That is not how I read that passage. It is a bit confusing, but it seems to say that the first 15 were withdrawn in 1904, and more later but in 1906 15 more were built as repacements. Three lasted until 1922.
No. It means that ice plants at the fishing port became more common from the 1880s onwards so that more fish could be packed in ice. There was also a move in the fishing fleets that saw the replacement of longlining, which produced live fish, with trawling, that didn't.
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