Hi The reference "GWR Freight Wagons and Loads in service on the Great Western Railway and British Rail Western Region" by J H Russell Pub. OPC shows exactly what these wagons look like as they are unloading and clearly shows the floor position. If only Flangeway had done some proper research they would have raised the floor of the body to the CORRECT position and put the ballast weight in the recess underneath. This would have allowed the chassis members to have been made full depth,and the top of the vacuum cylinder to have been moulded on. Modifying the position of the floor may have prevented the unfortunate sag of the body. The axleguards, brakegear, buffers and guide mechanism would still need total replacedment or major reworking to produce a reasonably accurate model of either the early BR unfitted version or the GWR version and even more work would be required to produce the later vacuum fitted variants. It is pity they mistakenly assumed the vacuum fitted versions have the Vee hanger in the same position as the unfitted wagons. They have finished up making a true chimera which is very difficult to convert into any of the 3 possible variants with many components which cannot be used at all for a reasonably accurate model.!! A
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Hi The reference "GWR Freight Wagons and Loads in service on the Great Western Railway and British Rail Western Region" by J H Russell Pub. OPC shows exactly what these wagons look like as they are unloading and clearly shows the floor position. If only Flangeway had done some proper research they would have raised the floor of the body to the CORRECT position and put the ballast weight in the recess underneath. This would have allowed the chassis members to have been made full depth,and the top of the vacuum cylinder to have been moulded on. Modifying the position of the floor may have prevented the unfortunate sag of the body. The axleguards, brakegear, buffers and guide mechanism would still need total replacedment or major reworking to produce a reasonably accurate model of either the early BR unfitted version or the GWR version and even more work would be required to produce the later vacuum fitted variants. It is pity they mistakenly assumed the vacuum fitted versions have the Vee hanger in the same position as the unfitted wagons. They have finished up making a true chimera which is very difficult to convert into any of the 3 possible variants with many components which cannot be used at all for a reasonably accurate model.!! A