NSR 10T Covered Wagon

Order for three please Mr Dundee, just tell me what the price is and I'll BAC's the money over.

 

Me too! Two please.

 

There you are Paul, retirement business sorted!

Keith.

 

I'm surprised Mr S hasn't put his order in yet.

 

Mr S was busy AT work! (Well getting ready to travel to)

Great work Dundee! Coming along nicely. Will compliment my other NSR models nicely.

I have an OO wagon that ran on the NSR (but was a BR wagon) and also have similar issues re what to do for the chassis. There is one surviving at the Battlefield line, so at some point may have to make a trip over. Obviously the bonus with 3D drawing is you can simply resize it and print it (within reason of thicknesses) so my MTV could also go O eventually. But that’s a way off yet.

 

No worries Dundee as our leader will say my order can wait, at least for now all the ground work will be complete and printing on a larger bed will be whenever. Great project though all the same.

 

I'd certainly agree with that Paul... white metal axle and grease boxes can have a locating nib which fits into the printed solebar making for a nice snug fit. Buffers were simple thin round affairs they can be cast in white metal too as can the brake gear if preferred.

 

Here is a little bit of research information regarding the North Stafford covered wagon fleet. The NSR owned 345 vans of which the two main types were 8 ton on a nine foot wheelbase and a 10 ton van on a thirteen foot wheelbase, this latter van was a stretched version of the 8 tonner. In 1912 the NSR placed an order for fifty 10 ton covered vans with (edit Gloucester ) Metropolitan Railway Carriage & Wagon, these vans carried the GRC&W crest shaped cast builders plate to the left of the cast rectangular NSR number plate located on the solebar beneath the left side opening door, the smaller rectangular cast 10 ton weight plate was to the right of the number plate. I cannot confirm if the Gloucester built vans were to a 10 foot wheelbase or not but pictures suggest so.

Now as far as historians can say much of the original NSR recorded data of fleet numbering and build records had been lost many years ago when a major fire occurred at Stoke station in 1932, the fire took place in the bonded warehouse against the canalside on Glebe Street Stoke where all NSR records were kept on the third floor, some records were salvaged and saved but much was lost, hence the major gaps and few estate plans. After the fire the third storey was demolished which is why when you see the existing blue brick building today it is only a two storey affair with a replacement steel warehouse behind which backs onto what was the sixteen sidings and goods avoiding lines behind Stoke station.

We know the Metropolitan vans were numbered in the 54xx series, the 8 ton vans in the 55xx and the 13 foot wheelbase 10 ton vans in the 60xx series but that is all. Doctor Jack Hollick of Ashbourne made an inventory in the 1950's of NSR wagon numbers many of which survived as sheds on farms but this was far from comprehensive and complete, the LMS renumbered the serviceable NSR wagons using their D shape registration plates and some ex NSR grounded vans had been seen as far apart from home territory as Wales and Scotland. What we also know is that NSR wagons had very long lives some lasting for over fifty years in service, mainly rebuilt with differing features and often when withdrawn a replacement wagon carried the same number forward, so things were haphazard particularly amongst open wagons.

Finally one feature to note on an NSR wagon is that the central Vee iron on the brake bracket is a V shape and does not have the parallel end tails which fit to the solebar as per standard RCH spec drawings, brakes acted separately on each side as well. Here is a drawing of other NSR covered vans, hope this information is of some help.

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I see a team coming together here Toto with you as parts supplier from the Edinburgh casting works and me as historical researcher where the records are kept at York. Brake shoe connecting push rods and/or blocks should be cast along with W irons, springs and axle boxes combined, so can the buffer collars be cast in WM.

Maybe a just a few thoughts here to fill up a mould disc.