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As I'm sorting through all the negatives I still haven't got round to scanning in I'm still finding things I'd completely forgot about
One is an experimental working wagon tippler I built many years ago. At the time, on my Mardy Colliery layout, we used to load the wagons with real coal in the coal screens. These went downhill to the hidden sidings loaded where we emptied them and returned back up the hill empty. I'd been thinking for a while about doing the other end of the process where the real wagons would have been unloaded.
My inspiration was a place I only visited once before it was demolished, the Denaby Main coal staithe on the River Don in South Yorkshire. Not far from Denaby and Cadeby collieries coal was brought by rail to the river where the coal was trans-shipped to barges for onward dispatch to some of the smaller power stations like Rotherham and Doncaster.
An early shot of the real thing
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The rails were laid to Finescale standards with cast chairs on hand cut sleepers. Construction followed the original in being all wood and the winding house was pretty much guesstimated as I had no drawings to work to.
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I can't remember the details of the winding mechanisms although I do recall it was very complicated but once sorted worked really well
The prototype wagon was a variation of the ones I building for Mardy but with a working hinged end door with a latch. It was built using my usual methocd of a wood body with rivetted plasticard strapping
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One of its brothers in the standard Mardy livery
More in a mo
Kev
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One is an experimental working wagon tippler I built many years ago. At the time, on my Mardy Colliery layout, we used to load the wagons with real coal in the coal screens. These went downhill to the hidden sidings loaded where we emptied them and returned back up the hill empty. I'd been thinking for a while about doing the other end of the process where the real wagons would have been unloaded.
My inspiration was a place I only visited once before it was demolished, the Denaby Main coal staithe on the River Don in South Yorkshire. Not far from Denaby and Cadeby collieries coal was brought by rail to the river where the coal was trans-shipped to barges for onward dispatch to some of the smaller power stations like Rotherham and Doncaster.
An early shot of the real thing
The rails were laid to Finescale standards with cast chairs on hand cut sleepers. Construction followed the original in being all wood and the winding house was pretty much guesstimated as I had no drawings to work to.
I can't remember the details of the winding mechanisms although I do recall it was very complicated but once sorted worked really well
The prototype wagon was a variation of the ones I building for Mardy but with a working hinged end door with a latch. It was built using my usual methocd of a wood body with rivetted plasticard strapping
One of its brothers in the standard Mardy livery
More in a mo
Kev
