Coulsdon Works
First post to my new Workbench thread. I intend to post occasional updates on my latest projects.
Current main project is building a Gresley ex GNR 65'6" Kitchen Car (diagram NE58) as converted from the 1906 Sheffield Stock Restaurant Car. I have tackled this by some heavy duty bashing of Kirk kits. I mainly used 1st and 3rd class sleeping cars, but needed a lot of joins - particularly on the Kitchen side as shown below.
Despite looking a mess, it actually joined quite well as you c
There has been some discussion on Gresley Jn, Peterborough North and Write Writes about the Gresley Diagram 16 RKB conversions running in the King's Cross-Cleethorpes trains. Daryll Tooley of the LNER society kindly provided me with some photos and I've made a diagram from cutting and shutting the unrebuilt D.16 and buffet car diagrams. This is what I've got.
The corridor side is the same as the original. Unfortunately AFAIK nobody makes a kit of a D.16, so I will still have to
