Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: rolling stock

This was my attempt at this carriage with the curious half compartment at the end. (Having typed in this note, I came across the explanation in Mitchell & Smith's Bath to Evercreech Junction. It started life as a luggage compartment.) I didn't put footboards on the bogie carriages as they seemed destined to catch on platforms etc. As usual the Triang GWR clerestory 'G' hand grabs have remained. I see that Roxey do a pack of etched LSWR reversed 'S' shaped ones. So if I ever get back to putting these models on a track, I could upgrade them, I suppose. I notice that I have missed off the crest. I could have digitally inserted one, but I prefer to show these old models how I had them running in the late 1960s. I think I can justifiably put the location as Highbridge, as both the prototype and model were built there and indeed the drawing was drawn there - albeit at slightly different map references!

This print has had minor digital restoration work, to remove a black mark in the area around the '41'. Built in 1886, Colin Maggs dates this photo to 19.7.1904, when 141 was 'lifted' i.e. overhauled.

This is a London & South Western Railway design, a drawing of which was published in the November 1970 issue of Railway Modeller.

A drawing of this van appeared in Model Railway Constructor in September 1965 and Roche has a drawing of a similar design G/106, in use on the Midland Railway, with a X framed sliding door. There was a grounded body of this type of van on Highbridge Wharf in the 1960s. Note that the two centre upright frame pieces on the ends taper outwards and are proud of the bufferbeam.

A model of this mail van is at www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26356097

An interesting layout with four and a half Third class compartments, two First class and a toilet between Third and First. I can't recall where my information came from, but I have noted on the back that it was built in 1904 at Highbridge and withdrawn in 1930, by which time it had been number 5731 in the Southern Railway carriage stock list. The length was shown as 46ft. I have now turned up a drawing in an article by Jem Harrison, that appeared in Model Railways in July 1980, of a '46ft 6 compt. compo luggage lav'.. That looks identical to this coach except that the half compartment at the left is now a luggage compartment with double doors and no windows. So that may be where I got the dimensions from.

This van was fitted with brake pipes and screw couplings and painted in lined blue livery as part of the passenger train rolling stock. The S&D had little or no other stock* with this style of panelling introduced on the Midland Railway around the turn of the century. Perhaps this van was bought in from Derby. I can only remember seeing one other picture of 'square' panelled S&D stock and that was an old workman's train carriage. * I have now spotted a proper scale drawing of this vehicle which was a 5 ton 25 ft Fruit & Milk Van, in Peter Tatlow's Historic Carriage Drawings - Volume Three - Non-passenger Coaching Stock - page 106. It appears that the S&D had 12 - nos. 7 -18. The Midland Railway had approximately 90 virtually identical. Although this looks unlined, looking closely at the original print, it seems likely that the paintwork was well weathered and the lining had dulled down, so as to be inconspicuous against the more obvious light and shade of the panelling. After all the S&DJR and 11 are almost invisible. To see my model of this van in the S&DJR blue livery please go to www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26452597

Chatham Historic Dockyard railway rolling stock For details of the dockyard railway's history and current state of preservation please see - www.kentrail.org.uk/Chatham Dockyard.htm

Chatham Historic Dockyard railway rolling stock. Note the square holes for stabilizing outriggers.

Chatham Historic Dockyard railway rolling stock

Chatham Historic Dockyard railway rolling stock - three photos of the same group of wagons from different angles.

Chatham Historic Dockyard railway rolling stock.