6 - 7mm Rolling Stock

BANWY VALLEY STOCK

As with the early locos, the first coaches in 7mm were made from Peco kits. I think my only addition was class numbers on the doors.

My first bit of scratch-building and bashing. The coach on the right is a Peco kit with the windows removed, just to add a bit of variety.

The guards van on the left was built from plasticard to match the Peco coaches, ands was based on a Glyn Valley prototype

The Peco goods van and open wagon kits were the first goods rolling stock I made.

Wrightlines produced some white-metal kits of slate wagons, so I bought a handfull. The flat wagon was a very early 7mm narrow gauge kit, produced by Stephen Poole. It was a very good kit.

Two other Wrightlines kits appeared on the layout - a gunpowder wagon and small open.

As with the early locos, rolling stock was fitted with Peco 00 Simplex auto couplers. These didn't look too out of place on narrow gauge stock,

and worked quite well with the plastic uncouplers if they were carefully placed. All this stock was disposed of when I went industrial.

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BAIGENT STOCK

As I was going to model industrial locations I thought I should design and build rolling stock to suit, rather than use any of the proprietory items. I bought a load of second-hand 00 gauge wagons as cheaply as I could, and used them to provide the underpinnings for all the stock.

I made this pair of bolster wagons to carry lengths of pipe. I used plasticard for the bodies and pieces of clothes peg to make the bolsters.

They were permanently coupled together with a loop and hook on the inner ends, and my own design link-and-pin couplings.

I made a pair of these three-plank opens - plasticard again.

I made a pair of these flat wagons in plasticard.

This was a one-off - a light crane and associated wagon. Plasticard on 00 wagon chassis, as before. The crane was a German HO yard crane with a few

additions - counter-weight, winding handle. The wagon was steel-bodied, and both were rather more heavily built than the other stock.

I had a couple of Roy Link's skips, just to go against my self-build policy - the original, brass-frame ones that had a bit of weight.

A close-up of my home-made link-and-pin coupler. They were made from two wide strips of plasticard with two narrow strips sandwiched between them. When

the glue dried they were trimmed to shape and a buffing face fitted to the front. They worked quite well, but needed manual coupling and uncoupling.

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