From Miniature to BIG

All of them are fabulous, I especially like the tanker for being a 6 wheel pice of stock.
Perhaps you could add sone coal to the wagon for some extra detail... Also does this brake van feature any interior details?

Have you considered getting any stroudley coaches fram dapol?

As it happens I just need to design up and print an insert to go into the wagons and then I've already got a bottle of 'real coal' sized for O gauge models, so job done!

I did look briefly at the stoudley coaches, but I have a couple of O gauge Gresley Teak coaches which I bought last year (I think) when I picked up the A3 & A4 loco's in the Hattons sale.  I'm not sure who the makers of the coaches are, possibly Heljan as they were the makers of the loco's.  But its not always obvious as these were custom models made specially for Hattons and sold under their brand name.

Totally agree about the 6 wheel tanker also, I could have bought a 4 wheel type instead very similar to the Thomas ones, but decided to get the 6 wheel as it was in the Rails sale at about 50% off

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You had me when I saw those spoked wheels Nigel. 😃

Yes, they are rather nice aren't they, all metal, then coated to make them look gun metal black rather than just leaving them nickel silver colour, they are a masterpiece.  Ironically though the tanker has disc wheels instead even though it is supposed to be the same era model, having said that the couplings on that are different also, more the modern type than the 3 link chain type on the wagon and brake car.  I'll have to check again, but thinking about it I suspect the tank wagon was listed against dual era's (i.e. carried over to a more modern one) so it may be modeled on the later rather than early era design.  Something I'll have to investigate in time.

Incidentally, I just found another one of those Croydon based wagons on eBay, but this time a different wagon number, 22 instead of 20, I may have to get that to go with the one I just got