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I have purchased three gunpowder vans. Two are in Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway livery. (My layout is based around L&Y territory.
The third wagon is in North British Railway livery. A must buy as I live in the land of the former North British Railway. How has it has made its way to Yorkshire? I don't know, but modeler's license and all that.
Glencairn
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glencairn wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 4:49 pm
...Two are in Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway livery. (My layout is based around L&Y territory.) The third wagon is in North British Railway livery. A must buy as I live in the land of the former North British Railway. How has it has made its way to Yorkshire? I don't know...
I don't know either, but I should think you are on safe ground as your chosen period would have required a great many movements of explosives. From 5th August 1914 the UK's railways were managed jointly by a Railway Executive Committee whose members were drawn from the manaagements of all the major lines to coordinate efficient working in support of the war effort. One of their earlier actions was to put in place much 'common user' working of the railway owned wagons to reduce the number of 'empty return' movements of freight vehicles. Whether this directly affected the gunpowder vans I don't know, but many of these must have gone off their home system to deliver the products of on system manufacturers.
To obtain concrete justification would require research into all of manufacture and sales, and procurement and use, of explosives on NBR territory.
Bigmet wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 5:21 pm
I don't know either, but I should think you are on safe ground as your chosen period would have required a great many movements of explosives. From 5th August 1914 the UK's railways were managed jointly by a Railway Executive Committee whose members were drawn from the manaagements of all the major lines to coordinate efficient working in support of the war effort. One of their earlier actions was to put in place much 'common user' working of the railway owned wagons to reduce the number of 'empty return' movements of freight vehicles. Whether this directly affected the gunpowder vans I don't know, but many of these must have gone off their home system to deliver the products of on system manufacturers.
To obtain concrete justification would require research into all of manufacture and sales, and procurement and use, of explosives on NBR territory.
Thanks for your reply, Bigmet.
According to the North British Historical Study Group, NBR gunpowder vans were hired out to other companies. Unfortunately they do not know to which ones. Whether the L&Y had some NBR ones is unknown as they had some of their own based in Wakefield.
Whatever, Rule 1 applies.
Glencairn
To the world you are someone. To someone you are their world.
I Cannot Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Phred wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:27 pm
You've nicely captured the jumbled,added-on look so typical of old streets where people have been building over each other for centuries.
PhredThank you for your kind comments. Much appreciated.
Dad-1 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 9:25 am
"Still a lot to do"
Wouldn't be much of a hobby if it was finished in 5 minutes.
I do like the mix of styles and materials, who say's you can't mix !!
Geoff T.
Dad1Thank you for your kind comments also. The partial loss of use of my right hand is making modelling rather difficult. But the end result is more pleasing (to me).
Glencairn
To the world you are someone. To someone you are their world.
I Cannot Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought