Wilverton GWR - Background

ROLLING STOCK



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	Page last updated: 18-2-2004

Rolling Stock

Kit- & scratchbuilding engines and other rolling stock is to me the most attractive aspect of railwaymodelling. But it is also nice to watch them perform the task for which they were built: rolling by in a nice setting. Therefore I shall have to behave myself and build trees, hedgerows and cottages instead of that nice new engine.

Engines

My model of pannier tank Nº 5758

So far I have built 3 engines for Wilverton. They are in pre-war livery, on my model it is supposed to be between 1937 and 1939. No shirtbutton logo's yet on my engines, who knows after the next visit to Swindon? All engines have a working directional headlamp, made of a LED. Incorrect headcodes, I'm afraid, but they glow in the dark!

List of engines on Wilverton:

2-6-2 Prairie tank	My first GWR project. Halfway I obtained a copy of Guy Williams' The 4 mm Engine, a scratchbuilders guide, but by then it was too late, I already made some serious errors! Eventually I completed the model, but detailing (rivets) leaves a lot to be desired.	Compensated chassis with Romford drivers (standard profile). Mashima 1626 round can motor, 1:40 Romford gearset
2-6-0 Mogul	Mainline body with some extra detailing (handrails). Scratchbuilt chassis, good runner. I regauged the tender to EM by just inserting pinpoint bearings in the existing outside frame and adding Gibson wheels.	Romford drivers, this time RP25 profile, which looks better and is easier when modelling the brakes.The same compensation, motor and gearset as 4562
0-6-0 Pannier tank	My latest engine. The rivet press I developed for this job, made from an old vertical drill stand, worked OK, so the rivets on this model turned out much better than on 5562.	Romford RP25 wheels, again compensated. Mashima 1624 flat can motor (round can was no longer available), homemade gearbox (1:38)

My next project is a curved framed Bulldog no. 3335 Tregothnan. Who doesn't like curves? On Wilverton it will no longer carry a nameplate, because the name was removed in december 1930 together with the nice oval name/numberplate. I already finshed the 3000 gallon tender that will be attached. The loco will have to wait untill I find the time.

There are some more engines I would like to add to my collection, but I will have to force myself to complete the scenery and some coaches first. These are the engines on my build-someday-list:

	A 51XX large prairie.
	Another Mogul, this time with outside steampipes. These engines were rather common on Taunton-Barnstaple.
	An early 2251 Collett Goods.

Coaches

A start is made in the department of building passenger and brown stock. I built a B-Set (Dia. 147) from scratch on a couple of Bachman bogies I picked up and also the Mailcoach Monster on MJT American bogies. After this experience the building of coaches completely from scratch did not appeal to me any more, at least not in 4 mm in brass. On my B-Set there seemed to come no end to the cutting and filing of windows. Never again!

I built two Collet coaches (dia. C54 and E127) on the basis of Comet-kits. A dia. D94 is waiting to be assembled to complete the rake. A longer train than that does not fit on my fiddle-yard. The Comet-kits are very nice in my opinion. The only extra's I had to incorporate were doorstops and door hinges. I am planning to try to add interior lighting that should keep on working when the train pauses. When I succeed I will add a 'how-to' on this site. I hope you like electronics.

Wagons

I collected a nice selection of goods wagons from various sources like CooperCraft, Ratio, Slaters and Cambrian.

So far I only scratchbuilt one, a PO tank wagon after seeing one at Didcot. My wagons all have Alan Gibson finescale wheels and three link couplings. The coupling are OK, but to negociate the points and radii of Wilverton I had to install homemade buffers of 5 mm Ø on all my wagons. Slightly too large, but an acceptable compromise.