North Staffordshire Railway, LMS & BR

The North Staffordshire Railway employed large numbers of medium sided goods wagons with centre doors for all manner of traffic; in particular crated pottery, machinery and beer barrels. The Diagram 14 can be considered to be a larger version of the earlier D12, it was a large wagon being 17' 11" long and 8' wide externally. The D14 was built at Stoke and by a number of external builders immediately prior to and after the Great War. Several hundred wagons were built annually during this period. They were fitted with oil axle boxes and either side brakes from new, typical of the forward looking attitude of the North Staffordshire in the Adams era. Full details of this wagon, like all most NSR rolling stock is obscure because of a fire at Derby which destroyed much of the records. Many wagons survived into the LMS and most probably the early days of British Railways although it is doubtful that any survived into the late 1950's.

The 51L wagon model is based on drawing number 1911 of March 1913.

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Made from white metal our model has separate sides, ends, and solebars including springs; etched brass w-irons complete with white metal oil axle boxes and buffers with steel heads. Parts to make either side brake gear are included. An embossed plastic floor is supplied. Our instruction sheet included gives detailed lettering and painting information. To download the most recent assembly instructions, current Version 1.00 released September 2002, 2 Sides A4 (71Kb Acrobat 3.01 file).

To read the instructions you will need Adobe Acrobat reader (v3.01 or better). Click 'Get Acrobat Reader' to get a copy of Acrobat Reader: Note this may involve a long download of between 0.5 Mb & 8 Mb depending on the selected version.

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Items required to complete the model:-

• Wheels: 12mm diameter open spoke wheels.
• Paint - we recommend Precision Paint or in some cases Humbrol Acrylic: see North Staffordshire wagon liveries for product numbers.
• Three link couplings.
• Transfers - we recommend HMRS see: North Staffordshire wagon liveries for product numbers.

Paint, wheels and transfers are available from our sister company Wizard Models.

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supplies a wide range of North Staffordshire Railway rolling stock components see here for detrails.

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North Staffordshire Railway Study Group
North Staffordshire Wagons, G F Chadwick, P52, 53

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Standard tools & equipment for finishing white metal models. Click here for details.

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