{"id":7143,"date":"2025-07-13T20:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2025-07-13T20:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:11:17","slug":"stanier-8f-8425-replacement-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7143","title":{"rendered":"Stanier 8F 8425 &#8211; Replacement tender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Some time ago I made some Dual lamp irons for the loco.<br><\/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\/07\/IMG_0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0003-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0003-1024x723.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0003-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0003-768x542.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0003-425x300.jpg 425w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0003.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Milled Lamp Irons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I should have made some for the tender at the same time but I hadn&#8217;t decided to swap the tender at that point so saw no need for them. Then when I did need them I had&nbsp;completely forgotten how I made them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So some trial and error over the last couple of weeks has given me these which still need some hand filing to finish them off<\/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\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"822\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender-1024x822.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7145\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender-1024x822.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender-768x617.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender-374x300.jpg 374w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender.jpg 1387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rear Lamp irons<\/figcaption><\/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\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender2-1024x901.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7146\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender2-1024x901.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender2-300x264.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender2-768x676.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender2-1536x1352.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender2-341x300.jpg 341w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lower-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender2.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ready for hand finishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the problem of the upper lamp iron for the rear of the tender. It has been a bit elusive but I did eventually find photos of one and then worked out a way to mill it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After squaring the end of some stock up last night I milled out the main shape today.<\/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\/07\/1-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender-609x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7147\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender-609x1024.jpg 609w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender-178x300.jpg 178w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-Dual-Rear-Lamp-Iron-Stanier-Tender.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Again it needs cutting of and hand filing to final shape.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mok-8f"],"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\/7143","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=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}