pre-grouping models

Aberdare,

prototype of

this

Have they stopped doing the LBSCR Terrier?

Not even Lord of the Isle? LOL

I didnt think that any of Hornby's wagons were suitable for modelling

Were these ever used on freight?

Although there is a wonderful picture of a Queen 2-2-2 on a pickup goods in one of Kevin Robertson's books on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway.

Wagons to this basic design were built a couple of decades earlier, before the RCTS spec was issued.

In message , ":::Jerry::::" writes

Sorry, I wasn't aware that the LBSCR Terrier was known to frequent the area around Gadlys Junction on the Taff Vale Railway.

Well, one got as far as the Weston, Clevedon & Portishead, another could just as well have made its way to one of the south wales lines.

You would be surprised were old LBSCR Terriers could be found, when the LBSCR was absorbed into the SR at it's formation it held no Terriers on it's stock, when the SR became BR(s) they have more than a few...! :~)

Besides that, Private owner and Railway company wagons did not stay in one area and thus could be found anywhere between owner and customer IYSWIM. This is one of the reason why the RCH was formed, to standardise on design and thus make parts interchangeable anywhere in the country.

In message , ":::Jerry::::" writes

Yes, I know that, but as my mother's side of the family comes from Aberdare, I was thinking of basing the operations of my layout on the south Wales valleys, particularly Aberdare. Hence all the palaver about this particular wagon (of which I have ordered more than a few).