Snow ploughs

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

For some strange reason,i would love a go on this.

[Bryan]

I believe there are supposed to be bunks and lockers inside is that correct?

Internal arrangements vary with each plough.
In No18 there are 2 bench seats in the rear section of the cab forward of the doors. These however are also used for an additional couple of tons of cast iron ballast weight, so no use as a locker. (5 slabs 4' x 1' x 3" in each seat)
There was a boxed in shelf fitted on the RHS in the rear section but not currently in place.
No 20 at Beamish as far as I can remember did have one fitted though. (This is the sister plough to 18 and often the 2 were paired together)
In the forward section of the cab under the plough slope there is the stove and 1 locker on the Left side also doubling up as a bench seat (no weights in this one) and another full width locker across the width this is labelled on the GA drawing as a fuel locker for the stove. It does show evidence of having a drop down front at one time but currently both lockers in this forward section have lifting seatlids only.
No Bunks fitted and seating would be for a maximum of 6 in the rear section and at a squeeze 2 in the forward section.
In the actual plough slope area there is then 2 long planked out shelves running approx 8ft to the rear of the front upright probably used for tool stowage. A small trap door is fitted in No 12 at Shildon for access to the drawhook linkage and this can be deduced from screwholes etc to have also been the case in 18

As for the blue colour I was rubbing / scraping paint the other day and some blue can be discerned but Red / Brown is both above and below it.

Looking at the photo 21 should be a steel bodied version
With the half cab doors and 3 steps I would suggest No 14 would be more suitable especially with 2 windows at the rear.

14 became 900568 and spent a lot of time at Waskerley being photographed there in 1935 by I think HC Casserley.
Did these ploughs ever carry Blue after renumbering by the LNER ?

Hope this helps.

[Trestrol]

thanks for the info. the model is based on the picture of the two ploughs at Waskerley in Railway Liveries LNER. And also a drawing in a Pictorial record of LNER wagons by Peter Tatlow. My Dad built them many years ago and they are based on the Hornby Brake van chassis as wheels go round curves easier. The picture of No5 and 14 does suggest they are in Dark grey (unfitted grey?) but the liveries book states that Service or Departmental stock should be Oxford Blue. Maybe the the later red/brown is a B.R livery as i bet they didn't get much major works attention and may have been painted by local c&w fitters. Do you know what livery it came to the NYMR in?

[Bryan]

Checking the 1 photo I have of its first arrival by rail it appears to be grey.
Being collected off the Esk valley by one of the lambton tanks in I think 1975.
I say first arrival because it was initially delivered Plough north but apparently it was requested to be delivered plough south so it was taken away again and turned somewhere and redelivered next day by the trip freight.
This was before the provision of the Pickering T/Table and anyway it took from 1975 to 2000 to actually reach Pickering.

[Trestrol]

Thanks for the info. I have come across another picture of No14 in North eastern branch line termini by Ken Hoole. It is parked next to the signal box at Alston and has been repainted and renumbered by this time 900568 and has small N.E towards the plough end.