Following on from my previous article on the construction of 5" scale slate trucks (EIM page 24, issue July 2009), this article records the latest truck construction project. I decided I wanted to make a tipping truck and was looking for a suitable example to base my model on. During a visit in 2008 to the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway in Cumbria, I discovered what I was looking for. I was taken by this design because unlike the standard side tipping trucks, this example had a body that could be slewed and tipped in any position. In addition the whole chassis was made of impressively large sections of timber, presumably because of the enormous extra stress involved when side tipping.
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