A bit more progress on the 16 tonner so I have something new to take to Gilling (hopefully) and join all those new 16 tonners for a proper "windcutter" rake.

If it is within the loading gauge, fits on and is under the rated weight of the wagon I don't see why not. If it's out of gauge it would have been a special working with cleared route I would guess.

The private owner liveries at the end of their lives did get dirty as this picture shows!

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I think I've got away with it... more luck than judgment on that one. No problem with the automotive varnish, just got to keep it off the transfers. The water-based varnish was a bit streaky by it's gloopy nature, I carefully rubbed it back a little, but sanding a see-through varnish without going t...

Hello again Richard. ... How is the wagon building going? Hope everyone has a good Christmas. David. I moved across to building the Brit, but now the motion isn't going together "as planned" so I'm back doing a few bits of all those mineral wagons I started (I'm trying to still produce 1 wagon a ye...

Looking good. It's interesting that the inner operating shaft support bearings are really required, I thought they were just copying the original prototype, but the shaft actually tries to bend at the full extent of the opening. I just need wagon plates and transfers for mine now (and put the bridge...

Looking good David, I thought for a moment the steaming bay was a base for a yard signal box - are there still plans for that?

If only there was some way of adding some holes to that headshunt, would make a good coal drop! See the video on youtube of Dave's hopper http://youtu.be/7G2_AXeaTSA

Here's the hopper running at Colchester, just need's it's transfers and some turning finished off to fix the shaft to the operating gear, and the bridge between the two door openings.

When Dave wrote to me "the clearances are a bit tight" on the door operating mechanism he was not wrong! Sort of like when I made my first Walschaerts valve gear, I was never really sure how it would work until it did! I assembled the door operating gear last night and to my delight it worked. I tur...

eeek. I coated my transfers with a water-based varnish, then coated that with an automotive varnish.

Richard, You are not alone by any means. My 21T hopper will be completed soon. It is behind yours at the moment, but the intention is to make a push to have it complete by the end of October so as I can get back to loco building. There was another one running and almost complete at the main line ra...

Seems that no one else is working on wagons! My progress has been slow, albeit with a burst of activity before the Bristol Model show, so the brakes are all but completed, with just a collar to turn and the hope I've silver soldered the brake arm in the right place. Anyway, the doors, probably one o...

Not really getting anywhere fast at the moment, but little steps - I'm surprised all the lever guard parts line up, not because of the design, but because it was me making it. Dave gave me a handy little template for marking the bend lines.

Working on the doors, which I think are meant to simulate a pressing as the edge would probably have been folded down at the same time as well.

Once you mentioned what the line was called it lead to a few internet links. There's one of the station sites close to me, which I'll have to walk over to at some point. It's surprising how well hidden some railways are in the landscape, I had a look over the bridges where the trackbed passes under ...

I was allowed out into the shed this weekend, so got my chassis up on it's wheels. It's been so long the chassis has started to rust...

Hello and welcome. I moved from S&D country to Swindon, so am interested in the lines that criss-cross the area. Fragments of the Swindon and Cricklade survive and it's easy to see where that went. Was the Great Western Way road a part of a railway trackbed? There's a line that passes near to me and...

Added the transfers from Dave, which need weathering down a little to match the rusty tippler body

Getting there slowly. Motor cleaned, painted and re-mounted, spindle knocked out again, bearings washed out because they are oiled and not greased as I packed them. Set bearing pre-load. Drilled the nylon insert we made to replace the fractured original as set up the drip feed. This is a very early ...

Wonderful progress David! With the headshunt falling away and pillars, it makes me think of the possibility of coal drops for my hopper The pillars remind me of your track, will the arrangement be similar?