5 - 009 Rolling Stock

The original wagons that came in the train - set. I guess they were supposed to be mining cars, but in a fit of enthusiasm I painted them up as "Loco Coal" wagons. They were amazingly camera-shy during their time on my layouts, and this photo is hugely enlarged from the original print. I must have made a conscious or unconscious selection of what got photographed, and went for the more photogenic items. What follows has more of these rather fuzzy enlargements. During the course of finding them I've come across bits of rolling stock I'd forgotten I had!

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The first coaches I built were Dundas kits of freelance 4-wheel stock. I think they were all closed as bought, and I modified a couple by removing the windows to add variety to the rake. There was also a guards van kit to match, and this photo shows the complete rake in the second livery.

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Dundas also made some freelance goods stock. Here there are two of the small vans and a long-wheelbase open on the quay at Bowcester. There was also a guards van of similar size to the vans, but I have no good view of it - I think it had a barred window in each end.

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Dundas also made short wheelbase wagons, and two appeared on a couple of photos only - here at Dol-y-Maen Junction.

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I also tried my hand at scratch-building some coaches, and these three are the result. From the left - a concoction ripped off from the Craig & Mertonford, made out of odd bits of card and mounted on a LWB 4-wheel n-gauge chassis; a 4-wheel "knife-board" open coach made from Slaters siding, and definitely an H&S infraction; a 4-wheel open based on one I rode in on the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway when it was at Cleethorpes, again from Slaters siding.

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I've been told it was Mike's Models who made some kits for Talyllyn 4-wheel coaches, and these are shown at the platform at Bowcester Station. There was also a Talyllyn Guards van, shown separated from its proper companions by the C&M coach. I even made the ticket window ducket, which can't be seen here as it usually hid from the camera.

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A very odd scratch-build of an open-sided coach on a LWB chassis - it only appeared in one photo session, so must have been a very late addition.

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Another very camera-shy item was this continental coach - Liliput? - that I bought from the 009 Society sales stall for some reason - perhaps it was very cheap. I think this is the only complete view of it I have. All I did was paint it to match the other coaching stock.

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Another second-hand stall buy was two continental goods vans, here with the Dundas LWB open. Again, all I did to them was repaint and letter to match the rest.

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Another camera-shy, second-hand stall buy - a continental open cattle wagon - why I got it I can't imagine, as there were no facilities for cattle traffic on the line.

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My first attempt at scratch-building wagons. Thick card bodies, scribed with planking, on second-hand n-gauge wagon chassis. Crude but somehow appealing.

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Another scratch-building oddity - it was supposed to be part of a work train with the card open wagons, out working on the track when not parked up beside the loco shed at Bowcester, as here. It was made from card on a LWB 4-wheel chassis of unknown origin.

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From the sublime to the ridiculous - I bought a double-handful of these little Roco wagons (another 009 second-hand stall buy?). There were U-skips, V-skips, and a couple of odd wooden-bodied wagons that only appear in the corner of one photo. These examples are in the quarry on the Banwy Valley Mk 1.

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At first coaching stoch was painted with green lower panels and white upper, but during construction of Bowcester & Vayne Mk 2 I changed the livery to overall maroon with black ends. Goods stock was originally light brown, but I soon standardised on light grey with black metalwork, and the initials B V in white. Everything was numbered, apart from the little Roco skips.

Everything - locos and rolling stock - went to the 009 Society second-hand stall when I moved on to bigger things. Indeed, the sale helped to finance the move.

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