{"id":1710,"date":"2015-04-12T19:49:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2015-04-12T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T18:49:06","slug":"conversion-of-a-slaters-gloucester-5-plank-open-into-a-midland-railways-ex-wd-locker-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"Conversion of a Slaters Gloucester 5 Plank Open into a Midland Railways ex WD Locker Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">Help, \u00a0I&#8217;ve become a bolt counter&#8230;..<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">During the last two trips up north while waiting for underframe parts from Parkside for the NBR wagons I made a start on a conversion of a Slaters Gloucester 5 Plank open to this &#8211;<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Midland-WD-wagon-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Midland-WD-wagon-.jpg\" alt=\"Midland-WD wagon\" width=\"600\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Midland-WD-wagon-.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Midland-WD-wagon--300x127.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Midland-WD-wagon--500x211.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">This is a scan of part a page from Essery&#8217;s Midland Wagons Vol one and copyright in the book is attributed to British Rail. Shown her purely to illustrate what I am attempting to replicate.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Next is a shot of the Slaters Gloucester 5 Plank side, end and solebars so that you can see what I needed to change to get to where I wanted to be&#8230;<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Side-end-Solebar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Side-end-Solebar.jpg\" alt=\"Slaters original Gloucester 5 Plank parts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Side-end-Solebar.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Side-end-Solebar-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Side-end-Solebar-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7524.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7524.jpg\" alt=\"Midland-WD Locker wagon\" width=\"779\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7524.jpg 779w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7524-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7521.jpg\" alt=\"Midland-WD Locker wagon\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7521.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7521-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7521-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7522.jpg\" alt=\"Midland-WD Locker wagon\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7522.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7522-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7522-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help, \u00a0I&#8217;ve become a bolt counter&#8230;.. During the last two trips up north while waiting for underframe parts from Parkside for the NBR wagons I made a start on a conversion of a Slaters Gloucester 5 Plank open to this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1710\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scratch-building-in-plasticard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}