MarcD

Never tried but I can't see why some can't be done in 2mm.

Marc

My wagon range now contains 7 NBR wagons with another 2 in the design stage. They are available as kits in 4mm and 7mm and bodies in HO, S, G1, G2 and G3.

Available wagons

1) 1plk 

2) 3plk fixed side

3) 3plk drop-side

4) 3plk centre door

5) 4plk Drop-side

6) 4plk fixed side

7) 4plk centre door

Under development

Cattle van

8t box van

Marc

Pre-Grouping Railways 

LSWR wagon transfers are available on the HMRS Southern wagon sheet. 

Marc

They are a version of the Ellis axle boxes but with a round bottom rather than the usual flat bottom. Apart from them being fitted to some PO wagons the highland used them on their 12ton loco coal wagons.

Marc

All my terriers are quite runners. I have 10 of them.

Marc

The 6th van could be either GWR or GER there is only the axle boxes and buffer beam which is different. 

The vents on the 1st on ook like Cally ones.

Marc

The RCH was a committee set up by a number of influential railway companies with the remit of coordinating standards across the railway industry. RCH wagon **** just means it was built to standards published in ****. Companies didn't have follow the standards and PO wagon builders did have to use them. However most did but as they were guidelines designs could and did differ. 

So what does this mean for the modeller just because a company states it is a RCH wagon it might not be the one that is correct for the prototype being portrayed. A 1907 RCH wagon from Roberts will be completely different to one from Hurst Nielson but both are RCH 1907 wagons.

Marc

TF Butler wagons had extended end supports to allow them to run with chaldron wagons. So would require a massive redesign.

Marc

Terriers available in IEG from Dapol were only in there form they are in for a window of 1880-1895. And for box hill that window is even smaller 1888-1895. The coaches on offer are in there pre-1880 form as they don't have the Westinghouse brakes. The main line coaches are correct but they aren't on offer.

This is the reason that my Scratchy Bottom layout is currently being rebuilt so it reflects 1888-1895. Before this date Box wasn't built and after this date the condensing gear was removed. Also if modelling per1880 Westinghouse brakes would need to be removed. 

Marc

It could be a supplement addition like the Cally wagons book. There is enough information to say that the original books need to be revised.

Marc

I had some of their paint that took a month to dry. Sprayed on with an airbrush but I used humbrol thinners and when I enquired I was told that was the reason it took so long to go off.

Marc

I had the good fortune of bumping into Dave on a few occasions. He lived a few miles away from me. He used to work with one of my uncles before the steel works shut. He was a very approachable person who was always happy to stop and talk.

A sad day.

RIP Dave

Its Ireland's to loose now. If Scotland's last minute try against France had stood then it would be a two horse race.

Marc

Thought this might be of interest. These are taken from LNWR wagons vol1 pg74/75. Dia 7 slate truck wagon with falling doors.

Marc

I went to a IMechE lecture about 25 years ago. It had a film of the incline in operation and the Ex-FR wagon at the bottom.

Marc

Width I think.

Marc

these could be loaded with slate. they look like they have been converted from dead buffered stock.

As a side the furness slate wagons weren't common user as they were the only wagons that could access the wharf at the bottom of the burlington incline. they lasted until the late 1950's. after they were sold out of service they lasted until 1981.

Marc

It has been very tempting on a number of occasions. It is a issue that is more common in O gauge and 00 modellers than EM, P4 and S7 modellers, I have to say. I used to trade as Furness Railway Wagon Co and if I had been given a pound for everyone who said either "Furness that's a bit to far north!" or "Only GWR wagon went onto the GWR" or the other classic "I model the 1950's your stuff is nice but to old" I would be a very wealthy man.

I should say the sign I had on the stand had a picture of a North and Rose St Austell china clay wagon.

Marc

9 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Yet there was very little change in the total size of the LMS wagon fleet over its quarter-century of existence - hovering around 300,000 plus or minus a few 1,000. 

 

 

Note that the number of LMS-built wagons did not exceed those of its consituents until the late 1930s and at grouping its stock was still nearly a third of pre-grouping origin - over 25 years old.

I have met a lot of people who would say this was "fake news". I was told by one potential customer that Pre-Grouping wagon didn't last very long after 1923 and any way only GWR wagons got onto the GWR. 

Marc

The LNWR had 2plk transporter wagons, dia7 sticks in my head for some reason. These were 2plk drop-side wagons with bridge rail bolted to the floor to allow 3 NG slate wagons to be loaded from the ramp/dock at B.F. and shipped down the Conwy valley to a wharf between Conwy and Llandudno. 

Marc

Pentewan railway used tender locos for most of it's life.

Marc

The Lowca light railway near Workington was operated by a mixture of C&WJR tanks (all pretty small) and Furness locos including their Sharp Stewart 0-6-0 locos.

Marc

There are a lot of people who are ill informed about railways that don't look like a Hornby train set. I took my Pre-Grouping o gauge micro layout to two exhibitions in the last few months and I had people with rucksacks barging onto it so they could look at the modern image trainset next door, people cocking a snook as they walked by to get to the same layout. But I have also had a lot of people stick around to watch the full shunting sequence, which can be up to 20min. 

As my gran would say there's not so funny as folk. 

I did go to a large single scale show last year and every layout was running the same stock on similar layouts. They weren't badly modelled but after the 3rd one they all merged into one. If you got to an art gallery and you are faced with 15 copies of the Mona Lisa you wouldn't stay long. There has to be something for everyone and even if you don't like or have any knowledge of the subject there is usually something that can spark an idea to be used elsewhere.

Marc

That's the colour I have used on my LSWR goods stock works well for me.

Marc

One thing people have overlooked is that before 1920 most railways in the world ran either UK or US built or designed stock. Those railways built in commonwealth countries looked like UK prototypes, with minor tweaks, so what is the the definition of British Railways. 

My main interest is British railways pre 1920 and my latest project could either have LBSCR or NSWGR stock running on it with a quick building change.

Marc