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SOUTHERN RAILWAY WAGON KITS
A numerous type, our kit is for the 9' wheelbase unfitted design. These were also used as engineers wagons — many were converted to carry cable drums for electrification work between 1950-70. A revised version to be introduced will include axleboxes for D1381 "rebuilds"
C33 LBSC/SR 5 plank Open (D.1369)
The standard LBSC open (D.1369), body style as built from 1912-26. The wagons built by the SR all had flat topped ends. Some remained in use on the Isle of Wight until 1966. With sheet rail & flat end option. See a preserved wagon at the Bluebell Railway.
Built in 1930-31, these wagons used underframe parts from LSWR wagons and were known as "Rebuild Type 1" (D.1380).
There were 900 of these wagons built, 17' 6" over headstocks with a 9' 0" wheelbase. The kit has LSWR-style buffer bodies, plus axleboxes and doorsprings of the type used on these wagons.
A later version with similar bodywork had a 10' wheelbase, some of this type were built as BR D.1/34
Above : LH ducket/equal plank type (SR early livery) ¦ RH ducket/unequal planks (BR Dept. livery)
Built between 1928 and 1948, some were still in use in the late '90s. The kit allows the construction of one of several body types: equal or unequal planked, left or right handed duckets. Optional sandboxes. Extra window frames for the BR modifications are included.
Built in 1928, this design was based on the LSWR hoppers and continued through two other SR versions to the BR Walrus & Sealion/Seacow. This early type had single door controls rather than the double-ended style found on all the later variations. The bogies are one-piece frames and stretcher, with separate axleboxes.
Five of these and one of the later batches went to Northern Ireland, and one is now preserved by the RPSI. They were used during relaying of the NIR Bleach Green - Antrim line in 2000.
NEW — photos of a surviving wagon on the Wensleydale Railway … HERE
This design was built between 1919 and 1926. They became SR Diagram 1355, and some lasted until about 1970.
Top picture shows an SR built D1355, which all had a sheet rail when new.
NOW AVAILABLE.
This is the third type with cast "AAR" bogies built in 1947. The BR Walrus which followed was very similar, although these had GWR style plate bogies.
C77 SECR 2 plank Ballast Wagon (D1344)
120 of these were built between 1919 and 1923. The kit has extra parts to fit along the edge of the floor for the "as built" overhanging floor wagons (Left-hand picture).
In later years they were seen all over the Southern Railway/Region system, some wagons lasting until the early 1970s. A few ended up on the Western Region, when in a ridiculous changing of areas, part of the Salisbury - Exeter line changed region before Exeter, putting the Broadclyst PW depôt over the border, together with its wagons (Right-hand picture).
Planned kits:
C78 SECR "Dancehall" Brake Van. This may have extra parts to allow the Departmental version to be built (one verandah boxed in).
C79 LSWR 12/15ton 8 plank open (SR D1316)
These may be followed by vans to SECR D1426 and LSWR D1408.
LBSC wagons at sea: Newhaven breakwater in rough seas — 1920s or 30s
(The two-storey defensive structure built in WWII at the landward end, just in front of the two figures, is absent. It was demolished in the 1970s or 80s (?), although it outlived the West Quay/Breakwater branch)
Photos of prototypes — (our photos)