Turf vans

[David Holman]

 A small one for the cognoscenti among you. Am interested in building one or more of the 6w coaches that were converted to carry turf, mainly by removing the roof and boarding up doors and windows. The Waterford Limerick and Western book shows many of them were their coaches originally.

 The questions therefore are, how long were they used for and what livery would they have been? Hopefully will make for an interesting project, including how to simulate the load!

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Shannonbridge turbines turn for final time as production ceases

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[jhb171achill]

On ‎24‎/‎08‎/‎2020 at 9:48 AM, David Holman said:

 A small one for the cognoscenti among you. Am interested in building one or more of the 6w coaches that were converted to carry turf, mainly by removing the roof and boarding up doors and windows. The Waterford Limerick and Western book shows many of them were their coaches originally.

 The questions therefore are, how long were they used for and what livery would they have been? Hopefully will make for an interesting project, including how to simulate the load!

They were used in the late 1940s, and just about into the early 1950s.

All were withdrawn stock, all 6-wheelers, and being withdrawn were all still in (by now) very badly faded GSR maroon - faded to a dirty brownish pink colour; but this was liberally punctuated with unpainted boarded up windows, unpainted planks nailed across wobbly bits, and so on. Some had several old doors in a row used as side panelling where perhaps the original side was unstable or rotten. Basically, they looked like as bad a mess as you can possibly make them!

Naturally they needed brakes, so an old GSR brake van (like Provincial Leslie's GSWR van) was needed.

The load.......All Bran?