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Did the Yahoo group (I think I was a member) ever get moved to the preferred new platform Groups.io? Most other Yahoo groups were migrated in 2018-2019. 

I still have a lingering hankering to to a small highly compressed Wenford Drys in OO.  At least 3 Kernow resin cast clay drys are in storage somewhere in my house and I have a bunch of kit1923 RCH clay wagons and all 3 BWT's  although inoperable.  The revival of the Kernow road van would make the scene. 

Wonderful discussion of the dissection of the brake van. 

Until I get around to it my examples are doing temporary reverse "Lend Lease" service......

Among the files I downloaded for personal use only was a pdf of a presentation in the Journal of the Trevithick Society on the Durford Clay Works.  Nothing on clay wagons but everything about mining china clay and settling the clay out from slurry to be dried and shipped in the wonderful little clay wagons we own so many of (sic grammar.) It includes how to build settling ponds in the 19th century.  Most of these lasted into the mid 20th century if their clay source held up.

If you would like this document, you can google to find it under the  Journal of the Trevithick Society and download for your personal use too. 

We had a fairly active yahoo group that fell afoul of the many changes of ownership of yahoo and the devastation of the online forums (the new owners were worse than ole Smaug.).  There was considerable information in the files of that group that described not only the railway transport of china clay but the whole process. Coline33 of this parish was the owner of the yahoo group and I have just offered to help reconstruct it on the groups.io platform where most of the active yahoo forums have migrated, Hopefully we will be able to move the files that we have saved from yahoo there too. 

Fascinating subject. I like the idea of treating it as an industry not just the quaint Ian 4 wagon linhay I am adding a comment mostly so I will be able to follow the topic. 

7-8 years ago while modeling Padstow, I became fascinated with the Wenford line and dries at Wenford Bridge. I acquired 3 of the 4 mm resin cast drys from Kernow along with each of the 3 Beattie well tanks (none now operational) and 10 Cambrian 1923 RCH 10 ton clay opens to build a short string that would (as was intended but never really happened) move clay to the Padstow long wharf for transhipment to small freighters as far as they could navigate up the Severn and to Ireland. The final part of those clay trains is the LSWR brake van due in October from Hornby.  I could never get ECLP transfers to represent the PO clay wagons after they had been returned to ECC after 1945.  If I had built the 12 module of the Wenford dries before I lost interest it would still have been only half the length of the real buildings. 

Unfortunately, the Southern Railway Group do not appear to list the cab conversion casting on their for sale page on their website. http://www.srg.org.uk/Sales.htm. I am still contemplating the conversion of the two WC's I own to represent 21C107 and 21C108 for my Padstow on the Pacific.