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Modelling British Railways Engineers’ Wagons 2020 Profiling & Modelling BR Wagon
Modelling British Railways Engineers Wagons 2020 Profiling & Modelling BR Wagon Fleets
Printed in UK
Model British Railways Engineers Wagons
From the Makers of Hornby Magazine
Soft Cover
130 Pages
Copyright 2020
Contents
6Introducing the fleet
10Engineers' trains
16Ballast open wagons
34Low capacity hoppers
52From Walrus to Stingray
64Sleeper and rail wagons
82 The long-lived Salmon
91Ballast plough vans
98Special vehicles
104 Ex revenue wagons
121 Renewal programme
If there is one type of train that can be justified on pretty much every model railway layout, it is the humble engineers' working. After all, every railway line requires maintenance at some point, even if the frequency may vary widely between a four-track main line and a rural backwater. During the British Rail era, a vast fleet of wagons of many different types was employed to carry out this mundane role, these variously carrying ballast, sleepers, and rail. To make the operation of these vehicles easier, many were assigned codenames of an aquatic nature to identify the different types, this helping to make them a firm favourite of enthusiasts and modellers alike.
Welcome then to this in-depth look at the BR engineers' fleet from a modeller's perspective, which describes the development of the wagons over the decades, including key modifications and livery changes along with the implications of progressive modernisation. Alongside this, descriptions of how to model many of the designs are provided, be it improving or converting ready-to-run models, building kits or even scratch building the odd example, all accompanied by numerous images typically
sized so the all-important details can be seen. In some cases, the companies that produced these kits have ceased trading, so they are no longer readily available. However, the kits are included here for completeness, especially as they still turn up second-hand and many modellers will have unbuilt examples stashed in cupboards and drawers!
Given the vastness of the subject, a line must be drawn somewhere so the focus is very much on what is known as the purpose-built fleet as largely operated by the Civil Engineers' department. This encompasses the wagons that were newly built from the 1930s through to the early 1980s and whose only job in life was to carry the previously mentioned track materials. The vast majority of these were either vacuum-braked or lacked any form of train brakes, otherwise known in railway terms as unfitted.
Also detailed within these pages are the many former revenue-earning types that passed to the Civil Engineers' department during the 1970s and early 1980s. Space precludes a detailed examination of the many and mostly air-braked replacements that
appeared during the late 1980s and early 1990s but it is hoped to cover these in the same detail in the future. Similarly, the cut-off date for this volume is 1994 when the breakup of British Rail commenced in the run up to privatisation and the divide between revenue and engineering fleets began to blur.
This publication would not have been possible without the considerable input of wagon historians Trevor Mann and David Ratcliffe, who have authored several of the sections as well as contributed numerous photos, many previously unpublished. Thanks are also due to Paul Bartlett and Bob Wallace, whose photo collections have filled several gaps, Gareth Bayer for his image processing work and the modellers whose wagons feature in these pages, namely Terry Bendall, Mike Cubberley, Michael Hitchen, Mark Lambert, Alan Monk, Jim Smith-Wright, Hywel Thomas and Paul Wade. Lastly, further acknowledgements for assistance are due to David Larkin, David Monk-Steel, Roger Silsbury, Tony Simms of the 2mm Scale Association, Peter Tatlow, Revolution Trains, Ten Commandments and all the photographers credited within.
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