billbedford

I should check your prototype drawings. In general pre-grouping six wheelers had no brakes on the centre axle.

You didn't go wrong, bearings and axles are notorious for their lack of consistency, due in part to the working and manufacturing datums being different, leading to the tolerances being doubled, or halved depending on which way they stack up. The easier way to deal with this is to carefully reduce the length of the axles by a small amount by rubbing the point on some fine wet 'n' dry or on a fine hard sharpening stone.

butterfingers....

That train carried bar steel. Lysaght's works produced this for rolling into sheet in various rolling mills in South Wales. There may also have been some pig iron shipped by this train. There was a stand-off, pre-war, between Lysaghts and the LNER over the cost of shipping pig iron to S. Wales. This lead to the steel company trying both road and sea transport in a effort to reduce its costs. I presume this traffic reverted to the railways during WW2.

If these last two photos were taken post 1916 0r 1917 the wagons would have been common user, and so their presence would not have been related to any particular traffic. Likewise I suspect the unpainted NB was was part of a war time economy measure.

They had wooden floors. The diagram show a separate floor line above the bottom of the side. The overall height is given as 8'0", depth over floor 4'2" and rail to top of floor 3'10"

It was because true bulb angle was obsolete by the 30s, so presumably the LNER, or one or more of their suppliers of coach underframes, had some special section roller that wasn't quite the same profile.

Yes, and there is another just behind the left hand van in the nearest siding. It is fairly obvious when you zoom into the photo.

I think the answer to this is, if the wagon came in for repairs to, say the running gear, then it had just the the LMS Lettering. On the other hand if some planks needed replacing it was given the full paint job.

Sorry, not true. The mixture of white lead to black was always specified, usually by weight. The LNWR used a 50:50 mixed white lead to black, while the Midland used 28:1 which gave a very light grey. Which meant that while some Midland wagons could be as dark as new LNWR wagons, no LNWR wagons could be as light as most Midland wagons.

The degree of list of a daffodil?

Does this help?

There is no 'proper' grey livery paint. Wagon grey was a mixture of white lead and black pigments. The white lead oxidised to an almost black over time, so wagons got progressively darker in traffic. The effect can be seen on these two MR brake vans, where the one on the left has recently been repainted while the right hand one is getting close to its shopping date. If you are going to mix your grey paints, I would suggest that you use a cream or magnolia instead of white, as this will counteract the 'blueness' of modern titanium dioxide pigments.

See for yourself: Standard Heavy

Not even 3 x 1 mm uneven angle with a suitable wire soldered onto the bottom edge?

Err no. The solebars were a 10" x 3.5" bulb angle. The flange was at the tap and the bulb along the lower edge.

Not logical... Shortening the spring makes it harder, not softer.

Traditionally the 'paint' on canvased roofs was made with white lead, then from the late fifties, early sixties paint manufacturers started replacing white lead with titanium dioxide. They did this because TiO2 was much less reactive, easier to handle, cheaper, brighter (brilliant white) and doesn't fry babies brains. This was generally seen as a Good Thing™ except it has caused endless argument from people who don't understand their paint chemistry.

Halford's primer use talc as their filler.

Did you check that the carriage restorers used white lead or some more modern synthetic substance for bedding in the canvas on the roofs?

I don't think this was true in general. The buffet cars were fitted with a counter, while the restaurant cars had only serving hatches.

As I said in a previous post, this should have been branded 'Restaurant Car'. The buffet cars were quite different:

I can't help feeling that the world wide sales potential for SciFi kits is many many time greater than for old Kitmaster ones.

There was also one by Stelfox.

A prime example of NPCS filth....