Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

A R3013 BR A3 'Coronach' DCC Fitted second hand at a resonable price.

Whilst in my local model shop spending my annual tenner I sort of had to pick these up as well for a fiver each.

Does that mean you have spent next years tenner as well Rob. Like the Prestwin wagon. 

Does that mean you have spent next years tenner as well Rob. Like the Prestwin wagon. 

I had that tenner in the bank Brian. The shop does lay-away with pay by instalments, so I can pop in and deposit my pocket money until I see something I like.

I am not into weatheirng but that wagon looks far too clean for general use. I must Google it and see what they carried.

RAF96,

I'd be interested in knowing what you find out about the Prestwin, I've got one sandwiched between a couple of Fisons wagons, in memory of my father who worked for Fisons for many years.

I've also got a few Grimsby Fish & Norstand as a reminder of my birthplace!

This much so far. They seem to have carried any suitable dry powder goods and were classed as private owner somshould have pitched up in many liveries.

http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=151

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brprestwin

Dapol still do a kit for them - ex Airfix.

The Prestwin wagons were also made RTR by Hornby Dublo (Meccano Ltd.) in the SD6 range.

I have finished my rather crazy collection of what I believe are all the Llanfair PG (Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) Hornby OA wagons.

Must be a by product of 'Lock down' and living in North Wales, not so far from the place..... Now back to some 'Proper' railway modelling.Kevin Fisher

The Prestwin wagon was introduced by British Railways in 1960 and came in two slighly different designs. the first to diagram 1/274 had 10' 6" wheelbase and the twin silos were higher and closer together as a result, Hornby's model is like this, The later version as depicted by the Airfix / Dapol kit diagram 1/277 of 1962 had 12' 0" wheelbase and the silos were further apart and lower. Both versions could carry 20 tons of powder. 

They carried a variety of products, Sand, Lime Tripolyphosphate and Alumina being typical. They were not used for cement because the Presflo was specifically designed for this. These were always painted brown, and private owner liveries are fictitious.

These were the very last two in existence, seen here at Broughton Lane in the Sheffield area on 2nd October 1983 just before scrapping.

Twin silo wagons did not really catch on in the UK although there were quite a few in mainland Europe and HO scale models of these appeared here in a variety of liveries by overseas manufacturers.These too were ficticious.

Just missed out when Rails had a super deal on the Lord Nelson a year or so ago ... but finally managed to 'win' an 'excellent used' example for a reasonable price ... not certain if it is excellent yet as has yet to arrive.

Just arrived is a Markits 10" Westinghouse pump I'm going to try to install on the LHS above the bogie of my Royal Scot.

I fitted a similar one to my Britannia at the front behind the smoke deflectors.

The pump for the Royal Scot will require some 'surgery' - drilling a 6mm hole so I need to confirm it'll fit before I start - again, it'll be behind the smoke deflector.

Al.