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Good morning, through this forum I have been helped in my research into the LNER 4200 GST. Thank you. One thing that has eluded me here and elsewhere, such as at the NRM Search Engine, is any drawing of the original GST. Design commenced at Darlington in 1923. A total of 123 were built there for classes K3, J38 and D49. In 1929 they were redesigned with straight sides, leaving the original tenders very conspicuous by their flared tank tops.
Do readers have any suggestions as to where else I should search in the hope of finding a drawing?
Kind regards
Richard

If it's a Darlington drawing it might be worth contacting NERA and their archive? I'm not sure how accessible it is at the moment with all the work going on at Head of Steam, though.

Dave on this forum is your other best contact.

Thanks. Will do.
Richard

Just an update on my search. NERA (Gateshead Works drawings) have nothing, neither do the NRM nor the HMRS archive at Butterley. So I'm left to work on photographs and the NER 4125 tender of 1914, from which it is reported that the Darlington drawing office drew their design ideas in 1923 for the GST.
Cheers
Richard

Hello,

I have been using an Isinglass drawing (#304 I think, from memory) to assist me in building a D49/2. Its Ok, for general arrangement etc - as I am building it from scratch it’s useful for dimensions and so on. I have also found the drawings provided by Brassmasters supporting their flat-sided GST 4200g kit very good for detail, especially in the coal plate area. If you need the flare-sided one, Finecast now provide the option in their K3/J39 kits in 00/4mm scale and that tender can be bought separately.

Oh, and if anyone has any idea on exactly where and when the vacuum cylinder was positioned on the ex-J38 tenders that became those of the first batch of D49/2s, if they were fitted at all (no visible evidence so far), I shall be most grateful.

Thank you!

Best,
Marcus