GARDEN RAILWAYS

W+L brake van

W+L bogie bolster and flat wagon

Part of W+L timber train

GWR 1 plank wagon

W+L flat wagon with car load and brake van

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W+L goods van

W+L all 3rd coach

W+L composite coach

ROLLING STOCK 

          Whilst we have 4 wooden passenger coach kits from Brandbright that will be detailed and liveried to my own requirements all the rest of our stock, at this time, is Accucraft straight from the box.  Its a bit like being an 00 modeller.               

Goods stock

          We have two W+L brake vans, 4 bolster wagons, 3 flat wagons, one GWR 1 plank wagon and 3 W+L goods vans presently in stock.  Kits and scratchbuilding are in the pipeline to represent other items of W+L stock. 
          My favourite set up of W+L goods wagons is my version of a 1904 timber train shown on page 40 of Ralph Cartwright's book 'The Welshpool and Llanfair'  In this train there are two brake vans, one flat wagon and 6 bolster wagons though two of these had their bolsters removed.  The train is loaded with two painfully long round timber loads that had been transported to Welshpool.  I can only imagine what it must have been like getting these loads through the narrows at Welshpool.  I use two flat wagons instead of the bolsters wagons without their bolsters and I have managed to haul the train successfully on the O gauge test track at our local model railway club. 
          The GWR 1 plank wagon was purchased to work mixed trains with the W+L passenger stock together with one of the brake vans, which I'm told were never in GWR livery. 

Passenger stock         

          Whilst there were three W+L passenger coaches, it seem that only on rare occasions and in the very early years of the railway were the three used in one train.  The usual set up is one in a mixed train but sometimes two coaches.  There were two types, a full 3rd and a composite and as Accucraft produce both we have one of each. 

Kits awaiting or under construction

          I have four Brandbright freelance wooden laser cut 4 wheel coach kits awaiting construction.  One is PS33 which came free with our Accucraft Countess.  PS33 will be constructed as an track maintenance crew's mess van, though there was not such a beast on the W+L. 
          The other three are PS16 and two PS21s which will be constructed as a freelance close coupled rake and finished off in the original Cambrian Railway livery.  I will photograph the ongoing construction of PS16 as this will include more little additions/modifications than the other two, although I expect I will build all three coaches together.