More Pre-Grouping Wagons in 4mm - the D299 appreciation thread.

[Compound2632]

43 minutes ago, Paul Cram said:

I always assumed that horse boxes were for carrying horses not being pulled by them.

 

There were class distinctions among horses every bit as strong as among people.

[richbrummitt]

10 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

There were class distinctions among horses every bit as strong as among people.

Especially so considering it cost more to send a horse by train in a horsebox than for a 1st class passenger ticket. (Source: J. Lewis in GWRJ) 

[corneliuslundie]

"a horse by train in a horsebox"

Better than the horse sharing your compartment though.

J

[richbrummitt]

23 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

"a horse by train in a horsebox"

Better than the horse sharing your compartment though.

J

I thought I should make a distinction knowing that horses were also conveyed in (sheeted) cattle wagons

[Compound2632]

47 minutes ago, richbrummitt said:

I thought I should make a distinction knowing that horses were also conveyed in (sheeted) cattle wagons

 

In 1913, the Midland Railway conveyed 13,675 horses by goods train, as traffic originating at their own stations, which pro-rata probably means no more than 20,000 in total - about 400 per week on average. The company had around 400 passenger-rated horseboxes; assuming each of these was used on average at least twice a week, perhaps twice as many horses by passenger train as by goods train.

 

Very rough guestimate.

[Compound2632]

A work of destruction...

 

 

... on the Colin Ashby sleeper wagon. As received, it was sitting too low, the axleguard units being glued directly to the floor. These I can re-use. The whitemetal springs I have discarded, as they broke as i removed the axleguards. 

 

Anyone recognise these axleguards? There's no indication etched on them. 

[WFPettigrew]

41 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

Anyone recognise these axleguards?

 

They look like Bill Bedford ones (as used to be available from Eileen's Emporium, and will soon be again from the Scalefour Stores) but could be something similar. 

 

All the best

 

Neil