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That's pretty much where the old bay for the south end of the station was. Both end bays were removed and filled in to extend the platforms as everything at either end was heavily rationalised. I'd assume now you'd have services terminating at Derby, rather than the huge expensive of completely renewing the track layout, Image crop added from a scanned slide to illustrate - Original photograher unknown.

LMS D1891/D1897/D1978/D2039, again all outwardly similar but with minor differences between diagrams. I would err towards it being a D2039 with three part ends (and perhaps slightly lower door lock location -they seem to be on the 5th full plank up on D2039, rather than the 6th on earlier diagrams - although the thin plank below the lock suggested it has been replanked at some point) and with BR era diagonal strapping on the sides.

Looks to be a LMS D1808/D1812/D1830 van (minor differences in wheel size and width over door fastenings). All three diagrans seem to have been numbered randomly rather than in series by lots. "Absence of block numbers makes it rather difficult to be certain exactly which vehicles were built to this [D1808] diagram in that D1812 and D1830 were almost identical, and, as far as running numbers are concerned, the three diagrams will be considered together" LMS Wagons Vol1, Essery

Nitromors will weaken epoxy glues enough to turn them back into kits, so would probably be a good bet.

To round this out (should anyone be looking at this thread in the distant future and to add to the sum of knowldge), all that's listed for Willam Rigley in the Appendix of Don Rowland's British Railway Wagons is 80 1/094 Carflat A conversions as lot 3321 in 1960. Tatlow 4a has 250 LNER Diagram 3 opens in 1926 (149301-550), 100 in 1926 (152666-765) and 200 Dia 91 opens in 1365/6 with 200 more from 1937.

The instructions for the Comet Jinty chassis notes that the frames need to be shortened to fit the Hornby body, so expect similar if you use the HL chassis on something designed for the Hornby chassis.

That rang a bell with me from an copy of Model Railway News I'd picked up trying to find the source of some profiles. MRN March 1964 p.265 has a line drawing of a 3 plank open noted as being spotted in the Liverpool area in 1946 with the same L shaped crown plates. The drawing includes the following notes: 'Built by Rigleys (Bulwell Forest) 1910. Rebuilt 1925. Registered MR 1910. Re-registered LMS 1925'. Given the detailed rebuild notes, I would assume the drawing and notes came from examining the actual wagon & plates. A brief search online doesn't provide much, only the full company name being William Rigley & Sons Ltd, who had their wagon works adjacent to Bulwell Forest Station 1896-1964.

I'll add B950204 is on a transparent background, rather than black now I've dug the sheet out. (It was on a list I'd made of what was on the sheet to help me rather than constantly looking things up).

Modelmaster BR302 includes B950204 which is a BR built 1/503, but that was the unpiped diagram as built.

Silvering of decals - one tip I've seen from the Aeromodelling world is to apply a small amount of Tamiya Extra Thin on the decal carrying film to dissolve the silvered areas. Needs testing before using in case of reaction with paintwork, but generally seems safe if done carefully. |(credit to Mr De Coster on the Hyperscale forums)

I've got to be honest, I quite like the idea of hired in Charles Roberts or Gloucester minerals in non-quite standard GWR livery (black or grey with black ironwork as per Atkins et al p240-1) on a layout reflecting anthracite traffic to the Midlands to bring out the 'that's not right' crowd... I don't think anyone is saying that Welsh wagons didn't venture far and wide, but more like finding photographic evidence of penny-packet numbers of wagons heading to or at the premises of specialised users beyond South Wales is always going to be challenging to find.

The era of anthracite in Mr Shepherd's book is somewhat vague, previous references to Bass buying anthracite in the 1860s and a reference to the appendix with a 'Memoranda on Anthracite" from April 1880, May 1880 and May 1886, before jumping to activity in the 1950s. Assuming late 1880s has got me to reach for GWR Goods Wagons 3rd edition - Page 233, Table 12 gives the dimensions of GWR pre-diagram 8t and 10t wooden coal wagons of 1884 but no illustrative figures or photographs. Edit: I now realise my earlier quote and slight edit had possibly removed a clue. "...regularly devoted to this traffic with Worthington because they carried small metal plates, charcoal grey in colour and with white lettering reading..." Similar to the 'Not Common User' plates perhaps or assumes the plates were body coloured and well into the GWR grey era?

I can speak only of reference to Burton. I've not yet seen a picture of what would be exotic Welsh mineral wagons around the breweries, nearly all coal to be observed in Midland era pictures is in D299s and D305s - I assume the Midland ex-POs mostly extinct by the time of the early photo/postcard picture era. There are the odd 'locals' that do appear- Moira Collieries being one, which with Bass had a long-standing relationship with the chairman of the company. One thing to note about this is that Bass had a coal stockyard and the Klondyke sidings behind Shobnall Maltings, well out of public view at the time, so any wagons tripped down from Leicester Junction would largely go unrecorded by your typical postcard photgrapher in the early years of the century. Anthracite - I shall quote from the good book, C. Shepherd, Brewery Railways of Burton on Trent, Chapter 7 pg 117-118: "Anthracite mostly came in Great Western Railway Wagons, although some private owner wagons may also have been involved. Some wagons must have been regularly devoted to this traffic with Worthington because they carried small metal plates....reading: - 'Empty to Cwngwrach Colly Glyn Neath GWR For Worthington & Co Burton on Trent' Now what those GWR wagons would have been, speculate away.....

Download and print your own? https://www.scalefour.org/hollar/

I'm sure if you ever commit razor saw to plastic, some exchange of goods could be investigated, I'd have to have a rummage and see if I have anything suitable. Only the gentleman's scale, rather than the senior scale for me at the moment!

I believe there was something in the small supplier's section stating the owner was recovering from a stroke.

Long time reader, first time writer... I've had a folding door van in the 'mulling over' list for a while after spotting one in a prototype picture where you can just make out the difference in doors between it and the vans alongside. Current plan is to cut off the right hand end of a Slaters van (found either cheap or a tatty doner), create a mould and use resin to duplicate, removing the door runners when used for the left hand sides and scratch building the doors, scribing the backing to match the kit planking. The remaining left hand end can then be used as a practice to see if I can carefully enough remove the diagonal framing and replace in the style of the D363 lots 938 &941, i.e. /I/ X \I\ for another variation. That just leaves getting another set of ends and a chassis...

Ambis Engineering do several sets of etched road names, including a set of railway related ones (picture about half way down the linked page) http://www.ambisengineering.co.uk/Products/Products_Index.htm Edit - As per the PDF as linked above by gwrrob