Steam railcars

[Mol_PMB]

I just noticed this over on RMweb:

Frying Tonight: LNER ‘Chip Vans’ Sentinel Cammell Railcars Join The Heljan 00 Range - Heljan - RMweb

I wonder if we might see a GSR version? They had 4 similar Sentinel railcars, though they weren't identical.

[Mol_PMB]

There's a fairly decent dimensioned diagram of the GSR railcars in the IRRS archive, which I have a scan of. 

They were numbers 354, 355, 356, 357, all built in 1927.

355 and 356 seem to have survived to at least 1942, but had been withdrawn by 1950. The other two went earlier.

They were similar to the contemporary Diagram 88 LNER vehicles, but I think the Heljan model represents a slightly later variant - Diagram 96/97.

Edited 2 hours ago by Mol_PMB
added diagram numbers

[Galteemore]

One of the Sentinels ended its days on the SLNC. A bogie was used as a luggage trailer for Railbus A! 

[Mol_PMB]

There's an IRRS photo of 355 here:

HDF_GSR_355_Limerick_1935 | [Photographer: Harold Fayle] Thi… | Flickr

The book 'Great Southern Railways' (Murray) has a photo of one on page 77; that shows the other side (but the same end)

 

There are strong styling similarities but many detail differences, not least that the GSR cars (and earlier LNER cars) were articulated, while the later ones (as modelled by Heljan) have a one-piece carbody. Nevertheless, the LMS-liveried model with a change of lettering probably wouldn't look out of place on a GSR layout.