Rolling stock of the GWLR
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 12:06 pm
As promised to Andrew of WH(WHR), here begins a thread dedicated to rolling stock of the Greta & Wenningdale Light Railway.
I enjoy scratch building stuff, particularly where I can repurpose something, So I have been somewhat surprised to realise how much of my stock is actually kitbuilt. However, I (like many others I suspect) nearly always add my own embellishments to kits, and being a railway not particularly based on any prototype, I can get away with quite a lot applying rule 8 - it's my railway, so what I say goes So this thread will also include kit purchases and the modifications I made to them.
Early on in the life of the GWLR (it actually began as the Bogg Bridge & Breastfield Light Railway - BaBBLR) I needed a guards van scaled to suit Binnie tipper wagons, and so I decided to make my own, using a Binnie flat bed waggon as the base for it. The body work was built from thin plasticard, and embellished with Hornby track pinheads as rivets on the framework.
As it is a guards brake van, I felt it needed brake gear, so I 'cobbled' together something with plastic strip, brass wire and Cambrian bolts and added the brake wheel to the vestibule end, rather than in the van, on the basis that it was small enough without having the brake wheel there too.
With the addition of running boards, handrails and a tail lamp, I thought that the model was finished.
But then, with so much detail outside, I thought I had better detail the inside and make the lights work too. So a bench was added, a small stove and a dim interior light, just because I'm a glutton for punishment Unfortunately, because I have placed the battery box in the roof (no room underneath, you see - someone put brake detail there ) there is no better view of the interior than from the vestibule end
The final touch was to provide a crew, and so the GWLR employed Garry Oretrain as a guard, and he has faithfully carried out that role ever since 2014.
I enjoy scratch building stuff, particularly where I can repurpose something, So I have been somewhat surprised to realise how much of my stock is actually kitbuilt. However, I (like many others I suspect) nearly always add my own embellishments to kits, and being a railway not particularly based on any prototype, I can get away with quite a lot applying rule 8 - it's my railway, so what I say goes So this thread will also include kit purchases and the modifications I made to them.
Early on in the life of the GWLR (it actually began as the Bogg Bridge & Breastfield Light Railway - BaBBLR) I needed a guards van scaled to suit Binnie tipper wagons, and so I decided to make my own, using a Binnie flat bed waggon as the base for it. The body work was built from thin plasticard, and embellished with Hornby track pinheads as rivets on the framework.
As it is a guards brake van, I felt it needed brake gear, so I 'cobbled' together something with plastic strip, brass wire and Cambrian bolts and added the brake wheel to the vestibule end, rather than in the van, on the basis that it was small enough without having the brake wheel there too.
With the addition of running boards, handrails and a tail lamp, I thought that the model was finished.
But then, with so much detail outside, I thought I had better detail the inside and make the lights work too. So a bench was added, a small stove and a dim interior light, just because I'm a glutton for punishment Unfortunately, because I have placed the battery box in the roof (no room underneath, you see - someone put brake detail there ) there is no better view of the interior than from the vestibule end
The final touch was to provide a crew, and so the GWLR employed Garry Oretrain as a guard, and he has faithfully carried out that role ever since 2014.