Andy Cundick

Some of my handiwork on the front of the 4 CEP,they were refurbished at Swindon,and my bit was brake plumbing in the cabs,a bit of scratchbuilding on a large scale,Andy.

Might sound silly,but John Langford,he's still alive and kicking as far as i know,Andy

Well i can guarantee that it will something i dont need (too modern) or i've already built itAndy.

I'm there again this year but with my model of Llanfair Caereinion in 009,it looks like i may well there next year with Brucklees all being wellAndy.

Its not the Arigna extension it is fact Arigna the line crossing is the extension to the mines the building being Arigna station building,been modelled that,Andy.

Also note the rather rustic replacement doors on van 83,Andy.

Same vehicle the photo also at Strabane was taken in 1947 the only visible lettering on the van is a DR on the centre moulding on the door,though there is a small board up by the eaves on the right hand side with some indecipherable lettering on it.The caption states that its 14 which is quite posssible as the donor chassis is certainly one of the original WDR chassis judging from the grease axleboxes and brake gear so the CVR van inherited the original number makes sense though the link and pin coupling is just weird.Andy.

The point(pardon the pun) with trackwork and points especially is they look daunting until you have a go,Trackwork scared the crap out of me but i was determined to go down the 21mm route so bought an SMP point kit blew the plan up to 21mm gauge and had a go much to my surprise it worked,the second one was pants as was getting cocky.Quite agree with Phil about P4 much more work involved as its that more precise bear in mind the wheels dont have flanges just burrs.One point if you stick to EM the EM Gauge Society commissioned PECO to do basic flexi track and a couple of B6 points.I used it on my North British layout and jolly fine it is too.Andy.

Nope its definitely DR (Narrow Gauge Rolling Stock Page 64) ,not sure about the number as it certainly isn't Red Van 14 as theres numerous photos of it.Possibly it took the number of the donor chassis as 290 did with a CVR convertible van (Narrow Gauge Rolling Stock Page 77).Andy.

The trouble is EM still doesn't look right,i've got layouts in both EM and 21mmespecially when it comes to steamers where you have the wheels peeking out behind the splashers.AS for bogies just use the MJT bogies which can be readily built to 21mm gauge and use the side frames off the original bogies as a cosmetic overlay.Andy.

A odd one that ,a picture of it appears in Narrow Gauge Rolling Stock page 64.Its on a Donegal chassis but fitted with a link and pin coupling.none of the books/articles on Donegal stock mention it,but thats the fourth photo i've seen of it,the others are at Strabane,,Stranorlar and Killybegs so she got about a bit,theres no trace of a number in the photo but a small DR in the middle of the door.Andy.

Its 6c,as she had latterly square rear spectacle plates.whereas 5c reatined the original round ones,Andy

Spendid one less job for me tender and chassis done just havn't got round to sorting out the boilerAndy.

Judging from the plumbing it looks like an injector has been rigged up,by the tender,Andy.

Wagon 276s photo was taken on the 7-9-52,according to the back of the photo,Andy.

Its an oft repeated mistake that No2 in the Red wagon series was one of the Clogher vans i've got 3 photos of No2 (ex Castlederg) (been there modelled that).So the numbering for the opens start at No2,No1 being the much photographed Breakdown wagon,now it is usually stated that the opens were numbered 3 to 9 now we know that s wrong as the above photo shows,now the next problem is that the above numbering allows for 7 opens,the problem is that the Castlederg only had 7 opens and No 28 (the odd one) became No228 in the ordinary wagon series,so that suggests that 8 and 9 were Clogher vehicles possibly the one counted as No2 and the rogue Clogher brake van which appeared on a Donegal chassis,which none of the books mention . Hope this is of interest Andy.

Possibly West Clare though the doors on theirs were usually vertical planking the lack of vacuum brakes fitted or piped narrows the field,ano ther pointer towards the West Clare,Andy.

I can confidently predict a ready to run J15 having built 3 and with a half built one to finish,Andy.

Simple answer is noAndy.

I did however i'm at the Oxford narrow gauge bash at Steventon with Castlederg this saturday.Andy

Railcars 9 and 10 were the two survivors of the 4 REO buses the Donegal used in the early 30s,Andy

The Broad gauge "Iron Duke" built for the Science Museum, Boiler and cylinder block from an Austerity,tender and carrying heels were 08 shunter wheels and the tender axle boxes and guides from a pair of ROD tenders which had been sat in the con yard at Swindon for a fair number of years shame really as they had been used as sludge tenders with the middle axle removedyou could still see ROD on the side of them,Andy.

Choice of two 316 or319both had the same configuration of uprights,Andy.

I suspect the paneling differences are down to what alli sheet they had,probably 16 was paneled first and got away with full sheets whereas the others end up with increasingly more joints,Andy

Quite agree about Recreation 21 their MGW brake 3rd hangs above my workbench as an awful warning about how bad things can be better approach is probably resin cast bodies.The North British Railway Study Group have done several wagons which need nothing in the way of tidying up afterwards just adding w irons and brake gear.Similarly Cam Kits do some Cambrian Locos with the main body in resin which exquisite.(just lining and lettering an "Albion" 240 ready for Expo EM),Andy.