Progress with some of the ongoing builds. Carriages are now ready for their coats of Klear.
In the 1936 ECML Carriage Workings, 1292 is the Perth Locker Composite and leaves the Cross at the head of the 10:05 'Junior Scotsman'.
1293 heads the Aberdeen portion and leaves towards the rear. There is a Newcastle portion at the very back.
I put out a request on RMWeb for some HMRS Pressfix BR carriage transfers, which seem to be in short supply from the HMRS themselves at the moment. I was more than grateful to receive almost an entire sheet, which allowed me to letter up a couple of carriages for
Wickham Market. The idea here is to produce a set composed mainly of cascaded NER carriages, older GER ones and the odd Gresley. As I had the transfers out I also changed the identity of the loco I had obtained to haul the set.
First up, then, R3235 Hornby D16. I wanted an unlined one and this seemed the quickest way to get there from what is available from Hattons, this being the 'E' numbered 'British Railways' version. 62597 is a Yarmouth loco which Dr Ian Allen also photographed down the East Suffolk on the Halesworth milk train, which we also intend to represent.
NER D 18 Brake third (3) - one of many which came south to the GE Area in the 1930s. This featured a few pages ago, an Ebay rescue and rebuild.
NER D111 Lav third. This is the second one of these in the train. This kind of carriage in various forms was very popular for cross country secondary services. In preparation I have another ex-NER clerestory, a composite, and a Gresley BT.
Finally one of this little jobs which crop up from time to time. We were setting up
Marske today at Redcar show and when the stock boxes were opened, this came out. It clearly hadn't survived the journey back from Ally Pally.
So it came my way to repair. How did I get on? You can see tomorrow at the show - or you may even see me still working on it behind the layout.