A3s and banjo domes

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smudger
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A3s and banjo domes

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Can anyone tell me when banjo domes first started to appear on the A3s? I'm modelling pre-war in N-gauge and would like an A3 but the Farish model has a banjo dome. I notice that all the liveries are BR except for 4472 in preserved condition. Does this mean the banjo dome didn't appear before the Second World War? I have looked at many photographs and paintings and every single one shows a round dome before the war.

I'd also like to know if anyone knows of an A3 sporting a banjo dome and pulling a non-corridor tender so I can use one of the Fraish A3s albeit re-painted.

Here are the locomotives I have seen and I have grouped them into ones pulling corridor and non-corridor tenders.

Corridor tender:

4480 Enterprise July 1937
2743 Felstead 1930s
2745 Captain Cuttle 1930s
2746 Fairway 1930s
2750 Papyrus 1935
2598 Blenheim June 1938
2795 Call Boy 1930s
2504 Sandwich Late 1930s

Non-corridor
2744 Grand Parade June 1938
2747 Coronach 1931-1934 (had cut-away smokebox door)
2752 Spion Kop April 1933 Non-corridor
2595 Trigo March 1939 Non-corridor

I have seen a photograph of 2749 Flamingo post-war with a non-corridor tender and it could be a banjo dome but the image is poor http://www.vintage-images.co.uk/london&NorthEastern.htm
Does anyone know when Flamingo received its banjo?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Alan
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Post by x568wcn »

I don't think it was a specific time, just as and when really.
In yeadons the only quote I can find is under a picture of 2500 Windsor Lad. it says; '2500 was the first of an order for nine which completed the building of class A3. It also introduced the 'banjo' type of steam collecting dome when new on 10th July 1934'

From that I would say
2500-2508 last 9 A3s as built

the rest as rebuilt

the rest of the A3s as and when
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smudger
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Post by smudger »

Thanks for the info. I have now seen a photo of 2500 Windsor Lad in the 30s with its banjo dome.

It had a corridor tender.

Alan
Sir Nigel Gresley
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Post by Sir Nigel Gresley »

Don't confuse the banjo dome with the later tear-drop shaped, streamlined dome.
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