Hi, I've just watched this video and heard you mention the BR TIERWAG. I have a little knowledge of them. I grew up in Dorridge just South of Solihull where Rover build their cars. Dorridge had a general goods yard built in 1933, but by my time had become a private siding owned by MAT Transport. There main business was the carriage of new cars for the export market ex factory. The Rover cars were shipped to the yard by car carrier, but Land Rovers and later Range Rovers were driven by a number of young ladies, the bussed back to the factory for more. I remember the Tierwags being loaded at Dorridge yard along side the goods shed. In 1973, I started work for British Rail in that very yard. The Tierwags had gone by then, but the man who maintained them still worked there on the rest of their fleet. They were powered by electric motors to raise and lower the center deck, and were extremely unreliable, especially in the ice and snow, and were very unpopular. They loaded to Harwich and Dover mainly, with occasional trains to Bathgate in Scotland. The posts for the power were still in the ground though. MAT also shared a siding at Bell Green near Coventry with Silcock and Collings. MAT are probably better recognised for operating the CARTIC 4 sets of which they had a fleet of one hundred. They also owned a fleet of CARFLATS, converted from old SR coaching stock underframes. A number of these were RIV registered and were used for cross channel transport from Paris to collect MASSEY FERGUSON hay balers in the summer. One other comment, the little lever next to the handbrake on your van could be an empty/loaded changeover device that adjusts the brakes according to load. They are common on European goods vehicles.
Just started watching your channel. I think its brilliant very well explained and different subject matter from all the usual 'junction and station' layouts. You know the ones I mean. Keep up the great work you deserve more subscribers.
Nicely done. Wish I had seen this several years ago so that I could attempt to make the corrections you applied and the one that you noticed too late. Thanks for the video. Bob
Hi, the little lever thingy next to the handbrake wheel could be a on/off brake indicator. As the brake wheel is wound on or off the lever moves to the left or right. Similar arrangement is used on container wagons. Hope this gives food for thought.
Its interesting that NR continues to hold ownership of the Motorail terminal at Olympia and also the Connaught Rd Motorail terminal for Euston services. These closed coaches were used on the Paddington and Euston Motorails as Kensington used the car flats, the Paddington and Euston ones also had decent sleeper coaches where the Olympia ones were simply compartment MK1's with "beds" made out of SR seat cushions chucked on the floor, it was an evil journey from Olympia to Fort William or Inverness. My late father gave up on using the service when his mate got speared at Olympia by the consist shifting as he was hooking up the flats and as my father was ranking BR man on scene, he had to stay behind, it was a horrible holiday of many blistering rows not made much better when shunters put his car off at Stirling whilst we waited for it in Inverness. We never used Motorail again.
I went onto Southern Pride and drooled a lot over quite a bit of it, well all of it but it seems nothing is in stock and the website seems terribly out of date as I quite liked the idea of cutting my teeth on a MLV then spread out into the rest of SR's emu stock as my expertise increased. 3x4CEP jaffa'd and a MLV up front... ooh yeah as they were the dogs as the MLV's had the same traction motors as the CEP's meaning you had 16 car power but only pushing 13 cars gave them a spring in their step.
Hi, I've just watched this video and heard you mention the BR TIERWAG. I have a little knowledge of them. I grew up in Dorridge just South of Solihull where Rover build their cars. Dorridge had a general goods yard built in 1933, but by my time had become a private siding owned by MAT Transport. There main business was the carriage of new cars for the export market ex factory. The Rover cars were shipped to the yard by car carrier, but Land Rovers and later Range Rovers were driven by a number of young ladies, the bussed back to the factory for more. I remember the Tierwags being loaded at Dorridge yard along side the goods shed. In 1973, I started work for British Rail in that very yard. The Tierwags had gone by then, but the man who maintained them still worked there on the rest of their fleet. They were powered by electric motors to raise and lower the center deck, and were extremely unreliable, especially in the ice and snow, and were very unpopular. They loaded to Harwich and Dover mainly, with occasional trains to Bathgate in Scotland. The posts for the power were still in the ground though. MAT also shared a siding at Bell Green near Coventry with Silcock and Collings. MAT are probably better recognised for operating the CARTIC 4 sets of which they had a fleet of one hundred. They also owned a fleet of CARFLATS, converted from old SR coaching stock underframes. A number of these were RIV registered and were used for cross channel transport from Paris to collect MASSEY FERGUSON hay balers in the summer. One other comment, the little lever next to the handbrake on your van could be an empty/loaded changeover device that adjusts the brakes according to load. They are common on European goods vehicles.
Very interesting, thanks 👍
A challenging build by anyones standards, but rewarding in the end.
Nice job(s).
👍🏻
Just started watching your channel.
I think its brilliant very well explained and different subject matter from all the usual 'junction and station' layouts. You know the ones I mean.
Keep up the great work you deserve more subscribers.
Fascinating vehicles and way beyond my modelling skills! Thanks for sharing 🤩
Nicely done. Wish I had seen this several years ago so that I could attempt to make the corrections you applied and the one that you noticed too late.
Thanks for the video.
Bob
Hi, the little lever thingy next to the handbrake wheel could be a on/off brake indicator. As the brake wheel is wound on or off the lever moves to the left or right. Similar arrangement is used on container wagons. Hope this gives food for thought.
Never seen a metal kit done before, was very interesting. I like a windowless Carriage - V good. Thanks for posting
Excellent work Nigel, this is fast becoming my favourite UA-cam channel for model railway content.
James Thanks 👍
Its interesting that NR continues to hold ownership of the Motorail terminal at Olympia and also the Connaught Rd Motorail terminal for Euston services. These closed coaches were used on the Paddington and Euston Motorails as Kensington used the car flats, the Paddington and Euston ones also had decent sleeper coaches where the Olympia ones were simply compartment MK1's with "beds" made out of SR seat cushions chucked on the floor, it was an evil journey from Olympia to Fort William or Inverness. My late father gave up on using the service when his mate got speared at Olympia by the consist shifting as he was hooking up the flats and as my father was ranking BR man on scene, he had to stay behind, it was a horrible holiday of many blistering rows not made much better when shunters put his car off at Stirling whilst we waited for it in Inverness. We never used Motorail again.
Have to admire your skill and patients , thats a nice wagon 👌
Skill, I consider myself only average!
Patients, they do run out occasionally!! 😀
I went onto Southern Pride and drooled a lot over quite a bit of it, well all of it but it seems nothing is in stock and the website seems terribly out of date as I quite liked the idea of cutting my teeth on a MLV then spread out into the rest of SR's emu stock as my expertise increased. 3x4CEP jaffa'd and a MLV up front... ooh yeah as they were the dogs as the MLV's had the same traction motors as the CEP's meaning you had 16 car power but only pushing 13 cars gave them a spring in their step.
I did hear that the chap that owns SP was looking to sell the business, don't know how true that is though?
Enjoy building the kits too 😀👍
Cyanoacrylate -- sigh-AN-oh-ACK-ri-late. ("ri" as in "rib" minus the b.)
Cyano -- related to cyanide
Acryl -- related to acrylic.