{"id":2524,"date":"2017-01-25T19:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2017-01-25T19:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:31:59","slug":"connoisseur-ner-birdcage-brake-van-hand-rails-fitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Van &#8211; Hand rails fitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of evenings have seen further work on the Birdcage brakes.<br \/>\nMonday saw some of the hand rails and the end posts fitted. &#8211; Chris bought me a Proxxon Mini Pillar drill and a Proxxon Bench Vice for Christmas and they have been invaluable in doing these especially drilling out the cast end posts for the handrails.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2516\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2516\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2516\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2516\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2721.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2721-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2721-768x548.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2721-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connoissuer NER Birdcage Brake Van<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2517\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2517\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2517\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2727.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2727-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2727-768x658.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2727-350x300.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connoissuer NER Birdcage Brake Van<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2518\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2518\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2518\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2733.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2733-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2733-768x634.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2733-364x300.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connoissuer NER Birdcage Brake Van<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2519\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2519\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2739.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2739-300x281.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2739-768x720.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_2739-320x300.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connoissuer NER Birdcage Brake Van<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then last night saw the remaining body side handrails fitted along with the upper ones on one end. The drawing and photo from the Sadler book that I am working from has a different layout of the hand rails on the end than Jim shows in his instructions with the end rails passing through the end posts rather than attaching to the outer face of them.<\/p>\n<p>The interested may wonder why I am just working on this one at the moment. That because I think that the only way to be happy with the one with duckets is going to be to remove the end with the birdcage and then cut out the intrusive sides of the ducket and I am still building up the courage to have a go at it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of evenings have seen further work on the Birdcage brakes. Monday saw some of the hand rails and the end posts fitted. &#8211; Chris bought me a Proxxon Mini Pillar drill and a Proxxon Bench Vice for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2524\">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-2524","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\/2524","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=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}