{"id":2484,"date":"2017-01-05T23:48:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2017-01-05T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:49:08","slug":"2484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Vans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Vans.<\/p>\n<p>First a bit of preamble. Back in 2011 for Christmas Chris bought me a few of Jim McGeown&#8217;s van kits. At the time I built an LNER Refrigerator van but didn&#8217;t get to the others, which were an NER Birdcage Brake, a Perishables van, and a 6 wheeled brake coach.<br \/>\nAround the same time we were sat having lunch in a little cafe in the village of Rosedale Abbey on the North Yorkshire Moors when I saw a picture of one of the NER Birdcage brake van&#8217;s at Rosedale but this one had &#8220;Side Cotes&#8221; (duckets to me and much of the world I suspect) as well as the birdcage on top. I decided that I would like to build one so a couple of years later at a show I bought a second kit and asked Jim if he by any chance had any duff etches that contained the duckets from his NER V4 brake van and he said that he did and duly sent me them.<br \/>\nHaving been up north for Christmas we planned a week at home before I go back to work so I dug out both of the brake van kits and modified the sides on one to take the duckets. The duckets were too tall to fit directly so I had to modify those too.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s where I got to the night before last.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2488\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2488\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2394-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2394-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2394-1-300x159.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2394-1-768x408.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2394-1-500x266.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modified by CombineZP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bit more done yesterday, alas nothing done today&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2485\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2485\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2485\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2589.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2589-300x277.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2589-768x709.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2589-325x300.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Van aprts<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2486\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2486\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2595.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2595.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2595-300x264.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2595-768x677.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2595-340x300.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Van aprts<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2487\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2487\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2487\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2601.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2601-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2601-768x453.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2601-500x295.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Van aprts<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Vans. First a bit of preamble. Back in 2011 for Christmas Chris bought me a few of Jim McGeown&#8217;s van kits. At the time I built an LNER Refrigerator van but didn&#8217;t get to the others, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2484\">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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connoisseur-ner-birdcage-brake-vans"],"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\/2484","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=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}