Well there has been a little bit more progress on the modelling front with another wagon for the layout. This is a 13t open wagon with corrugated ends, which is built from the rather excellent Parkside kit. It has H&A steel buffer heads and model master transfers. This one is set for revenue earning service unlike the last one, which is was finished for the engineers department. I have a couple more of these to build, but I have halted any more wagon building until the layout is operational and I have cleared the painting on a a back log of built but unpainted wagons. Currently in the paintshop is a dance hall brake van, a grampus wagon, a tunny wagon, a dogfish wagon, a LMS CCT, a Western, class 31, a ratio 13t open wagon and a plate wagon. I can't keep track!
However, I will soon have somewhere to run these wagons with the track laid on the micro layout and a fiddle yard ordered. The weekend is going to be spent soldering this up and starting to place some of the key elements of the layout. All in all steady if not slow progress, but the aim is to have the micro layout in full flow by the xmas break, whilst Pottington Quay remains in storage. Hopefully I can retrieve Pottington in the new year. Until then I have plenty to keep me going!
13t open wagon with corrugate ends, finished in a later bauxite livery.
Note a great photo, but the corrugated ends are clearly visible.
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