People were most helpful with a previous enquiry about the layout of battery boxes for those coaches converted to electric lighting.
Topic Battery Boxes on NER Coaches
I've managed to find several pictures of the roof layout for electric lighting, and have reproduced these on my model.
However, some of these pictures throw up two other questions:-
Some vehicles appear to have had their lower footboards removed, and some don't. There are 1946/7 pictures showing some with and some without. Does anybody know the criteria for this. Was it, for example, only those used as mainline strengtheners which were so treated?
How would the clerestory sides and ends be painted? Would teak paint have been used, possibly with black for the ends to match the coach ends?
I suppose that by 1947 they might have been so smoke covered that the paint colour might have been irrelevant, and it's certainly difficult to determine from monochrome photographs!
NER Coaches - late LNER condition
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Re: NER Coaches - late LNER condition
More likely, those coaches that had damage to the footboards had them removed rather than replaced.drmditch wrote:Some vehicles appear to have had their lower footboards removed, and some don't. There are 1946/7 pictures showing some with and some without. Does anybody know the criteria for this. Was it, for example, only those used as mainline strengtheners which were so treated?
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Re: NER Coaches - late LNER condition
Many thanks. I will just have to choose between the two best pictures I've located!Bill Bedford wrote:More likely, those coaches that had damage to the footboards had them removed rather than replaced.
Michael Harris 'LNER Carriages' page 29 has a nice picture of a 52'Clerestory (looking like the Dia14 I'm making) as the leading vehicle on a Middlesbrough-Newcastle train in September 1947. This one has lower footboards on the bogies only.
The cover of NERA Express No 202 for May 2011 has a picture of troops boarding a train at the badly bombed Hull docks in what must be sometime in 1946 or after. This coach not only has the full lower footboards but also what may be just visible as a '3' on a lower door side.