{"id":7075,"date":"2025-05-14T22:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2025-05-14T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:19:45","slug":"connoisseur-lner-single-bolster-wagons-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7075","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur LNER Single Bolster Wagons Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the last Bolton Show before its sad demise I picked up a Connoisseur kit for a pair of Single Bolster Wagons. These were the last design of 13 ton single bolster wagon built by the LNER between 1945 and 1948 with all steel body and underframe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having finished the LSWR Brake vans that I had previously been working on while demoing at shows I needed something else so at Harrogate show last year I made a start by folding&nbsp;up and soldering the body pans which are all one piece. Then they were put aside until last weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get much done on Saturday because it was so busy. Literally all I managed was to solder three layers of brakes together for each wagon.<\/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\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Brakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Brakes-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7076\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Brakes-1024x644.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Brakes-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Brakes-768x483.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Brakes-477x300.jpg 477w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Brakes.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LNER Single Bolster Wagon &#8211; Brakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday it was quieter so I managed to get quite a bit of detailing done on both bodies.<\/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\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-bodies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-bodies-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7077\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-bodies-1024x596.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-bodies-300x175.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-bodies-768x447.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-bodies-500x291.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-bodies.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LNER Single Bolster Wagon &#8211; Bodies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I was adding the details I had been looking at the rivets in each corner of the body initially thinking that I would have to fill in the unsightly dimples on the inside faces where I&nbsp;had pressed them out with the rivet press. This got me thinking that there must have been something on the inside. A Google search found an good image of a preserved example at&nbsp;Bo&#8217;ness which clearly showed that there is an inner washer plate which isn&#8217;t provided in the kit so on Monday morning I had a go at seeing if I could make some.<br>It took a couple of goes to sort out the spacing and sizes but I got there in the end. The most fiddly bit was getting them to fold straight.<\/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\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Washer-Plates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Washer-Plates-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7078\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Washer-Plates-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Washer-Plates-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Washer-Plates-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Washer-Plates-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagon-Washer-Plates.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LNER Single Bolster Wagon &#8211; Washer Plates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They just need soldering in now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the last Bolton Show before its sad demise I picked up a Connoisseur kit for a pair of Single Bolster Wagons. These were the last design of 13 ton single bolster wagon built by the LNER between 1945 and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7075\">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":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connoisseur-lner-single-bolster-wagons"],"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\/7075","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=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7079,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions\/7079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}