Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Sand Hutton Light Railway

So my Trevor Quarry breaker wagons seems to go down well if the comments to the previous post are any indication. I've been really enjoying modelling the small wagons and based on a comment to that post I've been side tracked from Canopus yet again. The comment in questions was from James who suggested that maybe I'd be interested in having a look at the wagons from the Sand Hutton Light Railway. No sooner was the suggestion made and I was on the hunt for scale drawings.

Actually that's not entirely true, I knew where the scale drawings were, they were in a book that I'd been tempted to buy ever since I picked up a copy of the Slate Quarry Album to get scale drawings for a bunch of Welsh slate quarry wagons (like the ones for the Aberllefenni box wagon). The publisher of that book, RCL Publications, also have a book on the Sand Hutton Light Railway and James' comment was a good excuse to buy a copy.

The book only arrived today so I haven't had a lot of time to read through it but it looks like an excellent book with lots of photographs, maps, and scale drawings. In fact while I haven't read much of the book yet, I've already started on a model of the open goods wagon! I'd certainly recommend the book to anyone with an interest in narrow gauge railways.

From the small amount of text I have read so far I've learnt a number of things including that there is a link between the railway and my home town, but more on that in a later post when I've done a little more research as I'm going to finish this post so I can get back to the 3D model I'm building!

5 comments:

  1. Thanks Mark - great to see you doing this wagon...
    My own Hunslet is on my blog: http://paxton-road.blogspot.com
    Search for Sand Hutton and it will bring up all the construction photos and posts - it's built on a Minitrains chassis and runs superbly :)
    It is to scale (largely) although the axle spacing is too long so the cylinders are a few mm to far forwards to the front of the chassis has been shortened to suit.

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    1. I've watched you build the Sand Hutton Hunslet on your blog and NGRM and it really does look fantastic. It certainly sets the bar high for any wagon models I produce!

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  2. A cracking book, which covers the Deptford system as well as Sand Hutton.
    Will the wagons need widening for 9mm gauge?

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    1. From an initial rough mockup it would appear that I can keep the basic dimensions the same although I will have to move the solebars (and hence the dum buffers) outwards to accommodate the wider track gauge. Hopefully they should still look the part though.

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  3. Such a wonderful book and a fascinating line, I was looking at some photos in an old copy of Bylines today. You are certainly putting together a fabulous range!

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