Axlebox

...looks like it was the resident brakevan for a while... https://www.ambaile.org.uk/detail/en/27130/1/EN27130-dornoch-station-with-recently-arrived.htm https://www.historylinksarchive.org.uk/picture/number2473.asp They must have liked these vans as they appear to have had a bauxite one as well.

nice brake blocks uncle P...

Cromdale 1965...looks like were in for some jousting with shunting poles.

...some more XPO (slightly off topic), but there are x2 16 tonners in the picture (Dornoch July 1959)

B91816 and 2 old friends at Granton Docks

Weirdly I thought I'd have more time to do things in lockdown, but working from home seems take more out of my day than travelling into an office everyday! I'm currently building stock for Garmondsway...or playing wagon body Jenga (or both)

I honestly can't remember where I read the War Department connection to lot 919...it was when I was doing research into MR wagons about 10 years ago (I did have a google in case it was on line and came up with this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-51603605 ...which asks more questions than it answers!) Thanks for your kind comments, I did build a Slaters D299 wagon (with some modifications) from the 1917 batch based on a photograph I'd seen from the 1950s...today I'd make my own plain MR axleboxes. My favorite place to go wagon hunting is on this national website (its free)...and surf around the country from above...this is Teesside from 1951... https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW038879 Also some pre-grouping wagons eking out a living in the early 50s, An LNWR Diagram 84 open, An NER C10 open and a North Staffs open...(all scratchbuilt)

It predates RM web so there isn't a thread...but does have its own Facebook page, which is as much about Croft as it is a ramble about railways and what inspires me to make things in miniature... https://www.facebook.com/Croft-Depot-Model-Railway-180968538716852

A pair of part scratch built D302s built from the drawing in The 'Midland Record No. 2 supplement Midland Railway Wagons'...the under frames are from the Slaters Cattle wagon kit (suitably cut down)...the bodies are scracthbuilt and fully riveted inside and out...there are a pair of D633As out there but they are in 'the shops' waiting to be rebuilt with Mr Bedford's sprung W irons. Did I read somewhere that the 1000 D299s built at Woolwich Arsenal to lot 919 were replacements for wagons requisitioned earlier in the war? Some of theses little blighters were still kicking around into the 1950s.

That Poursea Mane character should build his own train set and stop nicking mine! TBH he does operate it a lot more than I do and hes the person you mostly see with it at exhibitions...and he does take most of the photographs...

Loch Tay....a damp day and you can just feel the midgies

Uncle P, nice shot of a 16t mineral with a white square painted on it...anyone seen a picture of a 16t mineral with a white square and a number painted in the box?

...we did have something similar...

The vacuum pipe/hose connection had its own protective cowling which you can see on this wagon being restored...so either there had been a problem with the hoses being ripped off or the draughtsman/design team thought ahead and built in some protection...

Come on Fran, you sneaked that one out..."and maybe even a new release." I can just tell its going to be the hotly anticipated Conflat L...and what a good choice! Also, if you've not checked out the Deltic sound on Facebook, what are you waiting for... A/box

...I know your still in mourning the loss of your beloved brakevan Uncle P, and I will always feel guilty for having dropped it, but just think, if you'd glued the roof on none of this would have happened!!!...also (back to the picture) is the L/H van from the same batch as the old Airfix kit? There are clues out there if you look hard enough...

...dropped your brakevan recently?

Fast Forward to 1:56:32 for some rather nice colour film of 16 tonners in 1959 on the Cromford and High Peak...many a shade of grey.

Crock Depot also has its own Facebook page...which is less about Croft and more a celebration of all those weed covered railways which we thought would always be there...and if you look hard enough you can still find, tucked away, just waiting to be explored... https://www.facebook.com/pg/Croft-Depot-Model-Railway-180968538716852/posts/?ref=page_internal

...not quite 16tonners, but strongly influenced by, 'The Wheel of Drams' at Maesycwmmer.

...a clean one (OK so its only 3/4 of a clean one)

...not sure if this has been up before...

...so are you going to build a St Johns church cameo Uncle P?

...Yes Uncle P, a repeat for the sheet cleat detail... (If only I could get out more!)

Some good detail views of a vacuum fitted 16tonner being restored...you don't see that many pictures of the vacuum hose protector...