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Murray Bartlett

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I have a copy of the 30' 1" coaches and looking at the photo on page 20 of a WCJS 30ft 1in parcels sorting van the rain strip comes close to the ventilator. There are drawings of just about everything in the back of the book along with measurements but not what I want but the drawing on page 38 does give the impression of the rainstrip being close to the ventilators. The more you study the drawings the more you find ie the position of the gas pipes
 
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Murray Bartlett

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I have had a reply from Tony Lyster of the LNWR Picnic Saloon Trust and he has kindly put up the measurements on their facebook page along with some others which are pretty close to those on the back cover of Philip Millards book.
 
john lewsey

john lewsey

Western Thunderer
A bit of progress on the full brake not a very glamorous looking coach but in their time would have been on express trains.lm not sure about the oil lamp castings as they look too small to me compared to photographs that I've seen
John
 
Mike W

Mike W

Western Thunderer
Very nice John. I happen to know about the origins of both those kits. Information for the 21ft came from a body grounded at Bletchley and photographed and measured by me about 40 years ago. It was published in an LNWR Society magazine and Barry Jones drew the artwork in 7mm from that. The 26ft was drawn from official drawings by my brother Bob. We wanted one in 4mm for my father's EM gauge model of Aylesbury, because a c1910 photograph from the Newton collection showed one at the station. Danny Pinnock later blew it up to 7mm. The first 26ft were built with four wheels later ones had six. Later in life many had ventilators added to the sides and later still some of the centre wheels were taken out, putting them back onto just 4 wheels. Removing centre wheels from the model would be easy, but adding all those ventilators probably a non-starter!
 
john lewsey

john lewsey

Western Thunderer
Mike W said:
Very nice John. I happen to know about the origins of both those kits. Information for the 21ft came from a body grounded at Bletchley and photographed and measured by me about 40 years ago. It was published in an LNWR Society magazine and Barry Jones drew the artwork in 7mm from that. The 26ft was drawn from official drawings by my brother Bob. We wanted one in 4mm for my father's EM gauge model of Aylesbury, because a c1910 photograph from the Newton collection showed one at the station. Danny Pinnock later blew it up to 7mm. The first 26ft were built with four wheels later ones had six. Later in life many had ventilators added to the sides and later still some of the centre wheels were taken out, putting them back onto just 4 wheels. Removing centre wheels from the model would be easy, but adding all those ventilators probably a non-starter!
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Hi Mike they both make attractive models I would like to get another 26ft coach but I'm not sure if it's still available
 
john lewsey

john lewsey

Western Thunderer
Hi the four wheeled brake is almost there just a few details .Im still not sure about the oil lamps they look too small so I may look into making my own I am going to get this painted professionally

John
 
john lewsey

john lewsey

Western Thunderer
Almost there just not sure about the oil lamps also there are a couple of strips that run across the roof over the guards dockets . Then it's off to Warren for painting. I'm quite pleased with it really
John
 
john lewsey

john lewsey

Western Thunderer
A photo of the real thing as you can see the oil lamps look different and there are two strips across the roof over the guards ducked
John
 
paulc

paulc

Western Thunderer
Hi John , in your photo the next coach in the train has the same cover so are all our LNWR covers wrong or was it a specific region that used this type . I will look in some of my carriage books and the liveries book as well . I have seen this type maybe on an LSWR carriage?
Cheers Paul
 
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