{"id":6989,"date":"2025-04-05T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:51:34","slug":"ds-models-ner-diagram-67-horsebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6989","title":{"rendered":"D&amp;S Models NER Diagram 67 Horsebox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of years before I started this blog, way back in summer 2010 I attended my first Gauge O Guild Show at Halifax. While there I picked up a couple of kits. One of them was a D&amp;S North Eastern Railway Diagram 67 Horsebox. Now I confess that I have always had the thing about horseboxes so I was pleased to pick the kit up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I bought it from a trader and the pack was still heat sealed, I discovered later that it must have been both an early kit and possibly packed on a Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward 12 months to 2011 and I started to build it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was at the point where I discovered that there were no instructions in the packet. &#8211; remember my Friday afternoon comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"988\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-002-1024x988.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6991\" 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-001-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6993\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-001-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-001-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-001-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-001-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-001-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-001-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-004-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-004-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6994\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-004-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-004-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-004-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-004-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-004-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NER-Horsebox-sides-004-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I did&nbsp;have Volume 3 of Historic Carriage Drawings by Peter Tatlow which although it didn&#8217;t have a photo of the diagram 67 Horsebox it did have a drawing which showed that the kit was missing castings or etches for the distinctive door dampers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentioning the lack of instructions over on Western Thunder kindly brought me a pdf copy a snip of them is included below to show the door dampers that I referred to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6992\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.png 841w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-768x575.png 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The instructions made it clear that they were castings rather than etches. I also noted and this is why I believe it was an earlier kit in the D&amp;S range that although there were brakes in terms of shoes and hangers there were no representations for the yokes. I also have a D&amp;S GNR horsebox kit and that does have yokes so perhaps Danny realised what was missing in later designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years before I started this blog, way back in summer 2010 I attended my first Gauge O Guild Show at Halifax. While there I picked up a couple of kits. 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