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You want to find the relevant WTTs (working timetable) and this will tell you everything you want to know. These may be available online otherwise you might have to endeavour to find them for sale.

In regards to operations it would help to narrow down a period and location you are looking at. How things worked in the 1930s on the LMS would be different to how things worked in the Western Region in 1970 which again would be different to how things worked only a decade later.

The Midland was far from stuck in the 1880s that's just propaganda from those factions within the LMS who didn't like the Midland.

Given that one of the few things these companies could agree on was "**** the Midland" I wonder if that has something to do with it?

Honestly how would you feel if someone wrote this about you? It's nothing to do with non payment as the website owner has made clear. Speculating on this and in doing so casting aspersions on someone's character isn't a good look.

These would have been pooled in 1939 and promptly scattered to the 4 winds within very little time.

BR took the number of the wagon as Nationalisation and added a prefix dependent upon where the wagon originated. E for exLNER W for exGW S for exSR M for exLMS stock and some Ministry of Supply Wagons. A P prefix was used for exPrivate Owner stock that was pooled during the war. A number was allocated to them when they went into repair. Repair locations had a series of numbers assigned to that location and the next one off the list was chosen. Ex private owner stock not pooled during the war but subsequently taken into BR ownership was renumbered into the M36xxxx sequence of numbers. A D prefix was added to stock taken into departmental use so DMxxxxxx would indicate an exLMS owned vehicle in departmental use. The number on the C10 was taken from a photo of one which was used as the basis for this model the number being assigned to it prior to BR ownership. Hope that answer your question?

Oops that's something I need to get rectified then 🙃 The fact I missed the brakes would be taken off by application of the lever has really annoyed me! I shall return with it rectified shortly after I have suitably punished myself!

Railway modelling requires knowledge beyond "I like trains" whereas scenic modelling doesn't and is therefore easier. I suspect this was always the case for most modellers, however with the advent of social media everyone can much more easily share their stuff and it's largely taboo to provide any sort of feedback which isn't entirely positive hence what I term "the rise of mediocrity". Anyway on a more positive note I have done some pregrouping modelling myself.... Well sort of the wagon is pregrouping but it's condition definitely isn't! A much abused NER C10 very much at the rear end of its service life.

They look like conveyor belt rollers to me.

Have you tried punching them in the face? Usually works 🤷

The slowing off in 1930 also coincides with the end of D1666 production. My thoughts on that being the whole purpose of the D1666 program being to try and impose a degree of some standardisation across the wagon fleet while also eliminating older lower tonnage vehicles. I'm sure this isn't a revolutionary thought to be honest 😅. The decline of pregrouping wagons during this time confirms it, it would be interesting to see according to the returns exactly what wagons were disappearing around this early period of the LMS.

Most certainly. This also coincides with a shift in wagon design too. Steel underframes, longer wheelbases, more vacuum brakes and more complex brake arrangements all appear at this time as well which indicates to me that a decision was made to make newer stock to a much higher standard as less was required aswell as a desire to increase train speed to increase competitiveness.

Rapido have just announced Caledonian Railway D67s 10T vans today.

Great choice with a lot to choose from!