Evening all,
I am starting this topic with a question which I hope the knowledgeable people here can answer but I'd like, if possible, for the topic to expand into other wagon types and loads so feel free to add information and questions in a similar vein...
FISH TRAFFIC IN OPEN WAGONS
I have started a scratchbuild of a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Dia, 16 2-plank 'Fruit' or half-box wagon, which is at a stage where I can finish it as such or change it t
At least one of these liveries is authentic (but not the van). The prototype of the Dapol Healings wagon is illustrated in K. Montague, Private Owner Wagons from the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Ltd (OPC, 1981) Plate 270, and in I. Pope, Private Owner Wagons of Gloucestershire (Lightmoor Press, 2006) p. 113. This is a standard Gloucester 10 ton 7-plank wagon of the type represented in 7 mm/ft scale by Slater's kit 7058. According to Montague, this wagon was supplied in January