Birmingham & Gloster Rly, Slatted Wagon (my title)
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Jon, it sounds as if Rob has found the source.
Are you aware of the series of articles in Vol 20 of the HMRS Journal on wagons of the 1840s? All the past volumes are in the members' section accessible through the website. I have recently been going through some of these volumes and there really is a huge amount of researched information there.
Jon Nazareth
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Tim
Thank you, I had a quick look just now but, they are all out of stock. Without flicking through though, it's a job to know what's in them.
Jon
Thank you, I had a quick look just now but, they are all out of stock. Without flicking through though, it's a job to know what's in them.
Jon
Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
I want to make some brake lever brackets as per drawing. After a bit of deep thought, I came up with this idea to make a pattern. I need four so, I thought it worth the effort. I’ve soldered a draw hook plate and a washer onto a piece of brass. My cunning plan is to file/cut away the waste and shape the junction between the two soldered items with a round file. I can then draw around the finished shape, cut out and file or, bolt the shape to four pieces of sheet and shape them all at once. Watch this space, as they say.
Jon
Jon
Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
Here they are filed up as a block and separated. They aren’t quite concentric but that won’t notice once the brake lever is fitted l.e., it’ll hide that oddness.
Jon
Jon
Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
I made a bit of a cock up with the co-ordinates for machining the rebates for the cross beams which meant a scraped sole plate. However, as Fred Astaire once sang, ‘Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again’. I’ve made another solebar, complete with all necessary holes, and worked out the co-ordinates again. I’ve double checked them and they are correct. Mind you, I double checked the others and they were wrong. Still, I’m going to have a dummy run using the defunct solebar to make sure.
Jon
P.S. There are more rebates here as I was using it to check on cutter widths after the failure.
Jon
P.S. There are more rebates here as I was using it to check on cutter widths after the failure.
Brian McKenzie
Western Thunderer
Have just done something similar.
"I cut it twice, and it was still too short".
-Brian McK.
"I cut it twice, and it was still too short".
-Brian McK.
Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
Said in a cheerful way. I know nothing about railways nor their practices but, it would have been fun getting sheep into this wagon as it has no drop sides.
Jon
Jon
Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
Mike
Not sure if you’ve missed it but, there are ten spokes on these wheels.
Jon
Not sure if you’ve missed it but, there are ten spokes on these wheels.
Jon
Said in an equally cheerful way, the Highland Railway used specially made ramps for their double deck sheep wagons. You're quite right, loading livestock would have been a pain and the wagons would have been used for all types of load. Then again if it's all you've got and there is a demand to move livestock that's what you'll use. As you'll know the alternative in that era was droving. I have a 1951 book, 'Wales in Maps', University of Wales Press, that tells how a cattle drove from Llyn to London would take two months so perhaps they were used for livestock until the development of a wider range of rolling stock.
Your beautiful models illustrate a time of tremendous change.
Your beautiful models illustrate a time of tremendous change.
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Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
The rebating went okay and here are the completed sole bars complete with the cross beams.
Jon
Jon