Haphazardous 00 modelling. A slow workbench topic

[Trains&armour]

Meanwhile, in my spare time, I did some research on the prototype. Apparently they weren't used widely, or they weren't considered photogenic enough, because I could hardly find any information or, more importantly, photographs.

After a trawl through the HMRS website I found this one:

 

 

And of course I wasn't the first or only one with an interested in these wagons. This one I found on RMweb: (text additions my own)

 

(http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/51853-Hornby-20t-wagons/&do=findComment&comment=609792)

Btw, I would love to know which book this drawing came from.

 

After a lot of digging in the piles of magazines strewn about my man-cave I bagged this one:

 

(Model Railway Journal No. 162, 2005, page 260, Roye England CTY, Pendon Museum)

According to the caption a renumbered and repainted Ex Wickwar Quarries Ltd. wagon

 

After the magazines, the books. Which got me this very strange beast:

 

(Keith Turton, Private Owner wagons.  A fourth collection, Welsh Anthracite, Lightmoor Press 2005, page 119)

A  heightened 20 ton low steel wagon.... . Best saved for a later project.

 

[Trains&armour]

Not much, but enough to start me on designing some transfers.

 

Body cleaned up in photoshop to use as background layer:

 

 

Hoare Brothers:

 

 

Thomas Lant:

 

 

According to the text accompanying the Thomas Lant drawing this firm was amalgamated into the British Quarrying Company in 1928. Based on a repainted Thomas Lant 5 plank wagon pictured in Turton's seventh collection (page 61) it should have looked like this after repainting:

 

 

And the Wickwar wagon, based on their 5 plank wagon liveries (A.G.Thomas, The Modeller's Sketchbook of Private Owner Wagons, book 1, 1969):

 

More prototype information and/or corrections welcome, especially photographs with recognizable PO liveries.

[Fat Controller]

You mention cutting off the end door; if you do this carefully, you could use it to do one of the double end door types... I did this, and used one to represent an ex-LMS Loco Coal (no end-door) and a double-ended type. Not 100% authentic, but close enough to some of the wagons I used to see going to and from Carmarthen Bay Power Station, back in the late 1960s. There were yet others with two end-doors and no side doors; hours of fun if one ended up at your local coal deopt.