There was one inside frame Siphon G on American bogies at that time, this is the vehicle which went to the Severn Valley when withdrawn.
The front one is a David Parkin etch kit I think, I got it S/H & repainted it & modified the roof. the other one started life as an outside framed Ian Kirk kit...which I bodged into an inside framed example...although I think I should have made the ends vertical planked tooHi Phill, where did you get your Syphon G's?
Len
Or like these http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/gwrsiphon/h37949112#h7026d79So it would seem that the vast majority were running on these then ?....
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The outside frame Siphon G is to Diagram O11... for which there is one body style and three different styles of underframe... and probably three or four types of bogie. One lot was fitted with vacuum and westinghouse brake.I am intrigued by the one that went to the SVR with American bogies though, would that have been a Diagram 0.33 ?
I travelled by train from Reading in the 1970s, either to Bristol or to London, and noted the Siphon Gs in use for newspaper traffic. I did not see any inside framed Siphon with American bogies, most had the 9'0" Collet style plate frame bogie. There was one inside frame Siphon G on American bogies at that time, this is the vehicle which went to the Severn Valley when withdrawn.
The outside frame Siphon G is to Diagram O11... for which there is one body style and three different styles of underframe... and probably three or four types of bogie. One lot was fitted with vacuum and westinghouse brake.
The SVR example is here.
My sincere apologies, I made a mistake with the original post and wrote inside when I meant to write outside.I'm confuse now DS, was there a Inside Framed/American bogie example which went to the SVR?
Phill
My sincere apologies, I made a mistake with the original post and wrote inside when I meant to write outside.
The most likely source of an answer to your question, other than a photo, is the HMRS book on Siphons in which there is information about the types of bogies fitted to the different Diagrams. In some cases the book records details of bogie changes.
The bogie in your earlier photo does feature in the majority of the vehicles on the Paul Bartlett website.Is my bogie in the pic a pressed steel heavy duty one?