Binnie hoppers

[Chris Vernell]

What to do on a windy, wet day:


Assemble Peter Binnie kits. These are two of the three.
I won’t add the wheels and remaing axle boxes until I’ve got outdoors with a rattle can on the next dry day.
So far April showers have brought May showers

 

[Chris Vernell]

Carpe’d the dry diem and rattled the Binnie tippers:



The permanent way maintenance wagons are green to distinguish them from the regular grey goods stock.

 

[Paul M]

Who doesn't love a Binnie Skip or 6?

 

[Chris Vernell]

And here we are, all axleboxes glued in, wheels rolling.
Life is good.

 

[Chris Vernell]

And how the Binnie compares to a white metal IP Engineering chassis that will become a one- or two-plank open.

 

[Chris Vernell]

It being an almost perfect day, bright ma non troppo and not too warm, I took an hour to run the Binnie tippers:


On the unloading trestle at the end of the branch.


And back in the station yard.