Ok, I'm going to ask the Dumb Question again....
Go back to the first photo of the parts "in the flat" and zoom into the large piece on the RHS where you can find lettering which details the prototype.
To give you an idea of what it will look like, there’s a 3D printed version in EM gauge/4mm scale - scroll down to Kier Hardy’s “Hornsey Broadway” thread here…
www.thingiverse.com
Cheers. No the kit is the basic body only. Though includes interior detail etc. It comes with a comprehensive list if brass sections and parts needed to build the underframe. But as the real Ballast Brake was basically a different body on a lengthened brake van chassis I an going to follow suit. It will be fitted to a modified Slaters LNER brake van chassis.
Not a dumb question at all.
Many thanks for the straightforward answer.
A few more shots for you of ones awaiting attention in preservation.Many thanks for the straightforward answer.
I for one have never seen anything like it before!!
Yes indeed. It's in the queue for restoration. The first one is at the Wensleydale line but was so bad it currently looks like this.
Pretty much. Internally there was a small brake compartment at one end with a stove a brake wheel. The rest was lockers and seats with a second stove. Basically, in modern parlance a 'staff welfare vehicle'. To transport and provide cooking facilities etc for the track maintainence gangs. With the ability to act as a brake if needed. Though you rarely saw them used for the latter. I guess replaced in more recent times by more flexible lorry and van based equivalents. Most of the ballast brakes lasted as they moved onto secondary careers as crew vehicles with cranes and the like.
Ah, yes I saw that in the station when we were supporting their model railway event in May and other than guessing (not too hard
) that it was a brake van chassis, I did wonder what it was. Now I know, thanks.
