Initial wagon/consist build

The first train to be modelled for TG is the typical 1960s loaded china clay opens rake of 12 x diagram 1/051 (lot 2697, 2871, 2974 or early 3098) with tarpaulin sheets over the clay. The rake will be worked into TG by a Beattie well tank off the Plymouth line, for forwarding to Fremington quay behind a class 22 or else will appear from the Barnstaple direction heading for Exeter Riverside. The basis of the 1/051 wagons will be the Ratio clay open but the solebars/headstocks will be in brass channel from Eileens, the buffers and drawhooks courtesy of Dave Franks, the W irons also from Eileens, axleboxes and springs probably ABS, the wheels from Ultrascale and the couplings from Smiths/Ambis. The tarpaulins will be out of metal toothpaste tubes once they have been sourced and the paintwork will be Phoenix with Carrs weathering powders. The brakevan will be one of the new Hornby standard planked varieties with a Dapol 22 or Beattie well tank providing the motive power.   

Reference sources for the wagon build include: An Illustrated History of BR Wagons Vol 1, Early BR wagon diagram of the 1/051 courtesy of Mark Saunders, 1961 colour picture from Steam in Cornwall by Peter Gray.