Slaters Vans and Cattle Wagons complete and ready for delivery

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Rob Pulham

The Slaters Wagons are finally complete and although I have enjoyed the building of them I am glad that they are finished and will be delivered to their owner next weekend at Bristol Show.
They are to be used on a Layout called Hobson’s Brewery, hence the faint ‘ALE’ branding on the cattle wagons.
Here are the official portraits of each van.

Slaters form LMS Cattle/Ale Wagons – Ready for delivery

Sadly Paul Barlett informs me that running number B68501 belongs to a steel mineral….but I am sure that I took the numbers from the ranges supplied in the Slaters instructions – all things BR not being my strong point.

Slaters 7mm Cattle Wagons and BR Vans

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Rob Pulham

Bob’s wagons are now well under way with just a few jobs remaining before I can get them on their way to him.

Jobs still to do are:
Fix on the roofsAdd additional weightWeather the underframes of the cattle wagonsWeather the vans.
I hope to have the weathering, and weight completed tonight.

Slaters Ale Wagons – from LMS Cattle Wagons

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Rob Pulham

While in the North East on a weekend recently I have been doing a bit of wagon building on the workbench all by coincidence from Slaters are three LMS Cattle wagons, a couple of BR vans and an NER 20 ton hopper. The cattle wagons are to be finished as Ale wagons and much progress was made on them this weekend.

Gogin from this: