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Now in service on the club layout where we are currently preparing for our open day on this coming Sunday. Here it is snuggled away with a bunch of other stock in the goods yard. Now I just have to get the rest of the stock finished to the same standard as this van!

Also from the "1937 LMS General Appendix to the Working Timetable and Sectional Appendix Midland Division" is this section covering the use Pullman Gangways. Hope this all proves informative if unfortunately not answering the original question. It does suggest to me that the restriction on Bullied stock travelling off their home metals isn't down to be either their size or their usage of Pullman Gangways.

From the "1937 LMS General Appendix to the Working Timetable and Sectional Appendix Midland Division" these are the pages relating to restrictions on passenger rolling stock on the LMS. I also checked the 1940 dates "Supplement to the General Appendix to the Working Timetable and Sectional Appendix Midland Division" and no changes relating to SR rolling stock are added. No restrictions are noted as particular to any SR rolling stock.

Not the best image but buffers and couplings now added ready to enter service. Hopefully can get a better image of it in service on the club layout tomorrow.

The means of coupling the BS Gangways and Pullman gangway stock existed long before 1954. I've got an LMS general appendix at home which mentions restricted stock will dig it out when I get home

Someone has to take on for the team!

Will do. It's easy enough to get other uses out of the clasp chassis such as the D1927 Medium Goods too for example.

What would be nice is having the parts more freely available to do the clasp versions!

Out of interest what's the brake arrangement on the LMS liveried examples? Is it 2 shoe Morten?

I always work from a reference image and as a source your website is a treasure. I have depicted the van in mid50s condition so it isnt exact to the livery on your photo but it was very helpful.

A coat of paint, some transfers and a healthy dose of weathering leaves us ready for buffers and a screwlink coupling.

I'm 33 and dont cover any period later than 1956. The other realistic modellers I know my age all model pre-1968 when even their parents were either not born or only young.

I recall an earlier conversation about wagon builders in Bradford and couldn't help but notice these drawings posted on facebook. They may be no use but thought they might be useful for someone.

The D1808/1812/1830 series of vans are a minefield. The similar (horizontally planked rather than vertically planked) D1814 vans would be simpler.

As of 1956 2/3rds of merchandise opens were still unfitted!

Finding myself blessed for time for once I decided to embark upon some "proper modelling for once. I very much like to have as much variation as I can amongst my stock especially my merchandise vehicles. I am currently in the unusual position of having not enough vacuum braked vans and fancying a change from making another 5 plank wagon! The body of the van was done by filing and sanding the bracing iron work to the left hand side of the along with the bracket for the door rail located in the centre of the door. The alternative door handle was created buy using a 4mm scale door spring from an open wagon trimmed to the appropriate size. The chassis was made by chopping off the existing springs and W irons from the solebars. These were replaced with ABS castings, the clasp brakes were also from the same source. The rest of the chassis was built using a combination of parts. The vac pipes and cylinder were donated from a Parkside Meat van that had been left over from other projects. The linkages for the clasp brakes and the safety were made from whatever scraps of brass I was able to conjour up off my work bench. I'm happy to hold my hands up and say it isn't the finest example of modelling every produced but to me it passes the 4 foot test and gives me something a bit different to join the rest of the wagon fleet.

Hellifield certainly fulfilled all those criteria at one point and is still fully semaphore signals.

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Just after 14:00 a train and a car have collided at the Yatts Road level crossing at Newbridge. Reports are the driver has sustained serious injuries with no reports of any other injuries. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-65665628?at_ptr_name=facebook_page&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_format=link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_id=AAFAC0CE-F7E3-11ED-BB4B-42AEECABB293&at_link_type=web_link&at_medium=social&at_link_origin=BBC_Yorkshire

No! What I'd give to have it though!

Specialised vehicles would have been Non Common user anyway preventing them wandering off to foreign metals never to return. I'm pretty sure that there will be a record of LMS rolling stock somewhere. Just where that is I can't say!

This is the major issue I am running into unfortunately. While I can find at least one image of each livery variant the problem is finding numbers!

Right gentlefolk I need your assistance with a couple of research projects! I need images of the following LMS D1856 Driving Trailers particularly in LMS liveries Vacuumed braked LMS D1832A Vans in both LMS and BR liveries LMS Iron ore hoppers in any livery! Any images will not be published and are to be used solely for reference.

That isn't a headshunt it's a trap to prevent rolling stock from running onto the mainline.

The right hand cylinder had a previously discovered crack which had been repaired.