North Staffordshire Railway, LMS & BR

The North Staffordshire Railway ordered 6 silk vans from Harrison and Camm in 1911 for the transport of silk from Congleton, Leek and Macclesfield to London. It is not known if these were replacements for existing stock or not. The wagon although included in the wagon diagram book was fitted with the vacuum brake, carriage wheels, buffers and a carriage style underframe. Full details of this wagon, like all most NSR rolling stock is obscure because of a fire at Derby which destroyed many of the records. We believe that the wagons survived into the LMS but it is not known if they survived to British Railways.

There are no known photographs of this wagon so it is not possible to state a suitable livery. It may be that the wagon was painted in red oxide with white lettering like goods stock. Alternatively the wagon may have been in plain, that is unlined, Madder Lake with either gold or yellow shaded red lettering like Milk wagons.

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Made from white metal our model has separate sides, ends, and solebars including w-irons; with etched brass brake gear complete with white metal carnage oil axle boxes and buffers with steel heads. A preformed plastic roof is supplied. Suspension is by MJT internal compensation units. The instruction sheet included gives detailed lettering and painting information. To download the most recent assembly Instructions, current Version 1.00 released September 2004, 2 Sides A4 (122Kb 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: 14mm diameter eight spoke wheels.
• Paint - we recommend Precision Pain either Madder Lake or red oxide: 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, P59

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

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