Never mind locos, what about favourite rolling stock?

[Bigmet]

Now lookit people, for all your favourite locos in the BR steam operations era you should have proportionate rolling stock to make up representative trains. The twenty thousand steam locos, and over a million wagons BR started out with, even though most wagons were stationary most of the time, and only half the steam locos were ever going to be operating at the same time, and then only during a very busy spell; suggests that for 'trains going by' an allowance of ten to twenty wagons per steam loco available on the layout might be appropriate.

My favourites for achieving this from RTR OO based on numbers purchased:
Bachmann 16T minerals,
Bachmann 12T general merchandise vans,
Bachmann high steel 13T general merchandise open,
Airfix GMR / Hornby , five plank 12T general merchandise open
Airfix GMR 12T sliding door general merchandise van.

Fine efforts such as Bachmann's 13T wooden minerals, Oxford Rail's LNER type six plank 12T general merchandise open, Rapido's LMS type five plank 12T general merchandise open, haven't been purchased in the quantity that might be expected: because I had already built a great many kits of these types in the past.

Let's hear it for the ordinary wagons that went everywhere, and carried practically everything when the railway still moved most of the nation's freight! Once you have a hundred of these types you can allow yourself 'exotica' , but only one per hundred, from a selection such as: tank wagon, cattle wagon, conflat or lowmac; and don't even think of a bogie bolster, grain hopper, blue spot fish van, just yet...

[centenary]

Stole my thunder!

I havent got much in the way of rolling stock so I have to dig deep for this one. But, here goes!

1, Dapol Yeoman JHAs. Look great, very smooth and consistent runners. Bit fiddly to change the couplings if you want to. Just need to get some false loads to make them look full.

2, Hornby Dublo engineers crane. From my childhood. All metal in red with grey roof. Has 3 support flats, 1 to support the crane jib in transit and 2 to store the 4 little legs to stabilise the crane when lifting.

3, Hornby Dublo Royal Mail Travelling Sorting Carriage. Tin plate carriage that threw out and collected mail bags at the trackside collection point on the press of a button.

4, Hornby InterCity Executive Mark 3s. These were a bargain and look great as part of the HST.

5, Bachman West Coast Railway Mark 1 and 2 carriages. Look very nice, havent had chance to run them yet. The livery is superb and it helps that I like the BR maroon of old.

[Dad-1]

Coal Wagons - of all sorts and sizes.

Numerically nothing gets near Dapol 16 Ton steel minerals
Note : I didn't state coal there, as I have a quantity of 16 ton Chalk wagons
Then next will be Bachmann 16 Ton minerals & they (I think) are all coal
A computer search for 16 Ton Minerals comes out at 85, including both loaded & empty.

Dapol & Parkside 20/21 Ton coal hoppers of different diagrams there are 20 loaded and just 5 empties

Parkside 13 Ton coal Hoppers, 6 loaded and 4 empties. I do really like that kit, but it's rather expensive now.

So to get away from numerically important wagons, something I really like. My single Triang Mergatroyds bogie chlorine tank
re-wheeled and with Kadees.

Looking at that list I suppose this becomes No.5. A Cambrian Kits GWR Starfish engineers wagon with rubbish & spoil.
I have made 2 of these, but this one is a bit special to me. To that end a picture :-
https://i.ibb.co/cLjW11z/IMG-4183.jpg

Note NO coaches, my waggon collection is now too big (600+), but I don't want to part with any.

Geoff T

[Mountain]

I think my favourites are the H chassis "Clothes peg" design (I call them "Clothes peg" because somehow they remind me of them!).
The "Farmyard box" design is probably my second.
The open carriage I made to a type of "Horse drawn carriage conversion" design is my third.
My fourth is the little tub waggon I made out of code 100 rails and rusty baked bean tin for the body. (I painted over the rust in the hope the rust would show through but it didn't).
The fifth is the Triang metal bogie waggon conversions I have made.

Is hard to pick favourites though, but they do tend to be ones I have made. Is not that I don't value the kits (Apart from buying another modellers creations as he decided to change scale), but somehow it feels more personal to create from scratch. I own some lovely models including the Hornby Dublo crane mentioned above and the Dublo 3-rail TPO sets, but is the personal touch that scratchbuilding has that just feels better that makes them my favourite, and there is nothing more rewarding than making things from scratch.

[Bigmet]

...to get away from numerically important wagons, something I really like. My single Triang Murgatroyd bogie chlorine tank re-wheeled and with Kadees...

A classic of the early Triang 'bogie wagon weirdness' collection. The mouldings of all their UK oriented bogie wagons I know: your Tanker , Brick, 'Trestrol', 'Well' and 'Bolster', were all in the 'useful model representations' category, and the diamond frame bogie casting and 6 wheel bogie moulding are tolerable too.
Why so different from the 'cheapo job' of all the four wheel wagons which were shabby in the extreme. Were the bogie wagons all tooling from a different shop, that also produced the Transcontinental range?

(I am still buying Trestrols as they occasionally emerge into the sunlight, as a very good basis for the joint design LNER and LMS 'Specially Constructed Vehicles' (SCV) built from the time of Government initiated progamme of re-equipping for WWII, to move the (correctly) anticipated increased traffic in heavy loads.)

[Phred]

All no-nonsense working stock for me. The dirtier the better! This autoballaster is a favourite:

[Mountain]

These are nice.