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Solebar Plate and Markings Decals
For Railway-Owned Wagons

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Configure Your Decals

To order some of my decals for plates and markings you will need to select a base type, then configure it to your required specification, select the quantity you require and add it to your set. Once you've completed your set of decals, you can then add the set to your basket.

The range of available plate and markings decals is large, so has been divided into groups of related decals, such as numberplates, builder's plates, specific types of markings, etc. Each group has its own page that you can use to select the base type you require and it. When you return to this page you can configure the decal you've selected with appropriate characteristics, and then add it to your set.

Certain characteristics, such as scale, solebar height and colour, apply to all of the decals in your set, and can be set below.

To keep the number of configuration option values down, while still covering the wide range of scales and retaining precision in the larger ones, the configurable dimensions are specified in scale inches, rather than model mm. A calculator and look-up table to help convert scale inches into model dimensions (or vice versa) is available here (opens in new browser tab/window).

Plate or Marking Selection

Please use the buttons below to select a base plate/marking decal and return to this page.

British Railways Era Numberplates:
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No plate or marking selected

Grouping Era Numberplates:
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Builder's Plates:
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Vacuum Release Markings:
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British Railways Maintenance Markings:
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British Railways Other Markings:
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GWR Markings:
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LMS Markings:
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LNER Markings:
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SR Markings:
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General Markings:
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Specific Plate/Marking Settings

These settings apply to the specific plate or marking decal selected above, to allow you to configure it to your requirements.

You currently have no plate or marking decal type selected. Please use the buttons above to select one.

Set Contents

Your set of decals is currently empty. Please use the controls above to select and configure one or more plate or marking decals.

General Settings

These settings apply to all decals in your set.

Warning: If you select a new plate/marking, or edit one in your existing set, after you have started to change any of the settings below, you are likely to lose those changes. Either finish selecting or editing the plates or markings first, or use this button to save your other settings before changing your set contents.

The colour of the solebar to which the various plates and markings are to be attached, and the background colour for the decals. This was often black, but some of the grouping companies painted the solebars the same colour as the body, for some of their wagons.

The height of the solebar to which the various plates and markings are to be attached.

Steel solebars were typically 9in high, or larger for wagons of long wheelbase or large load capacity. Such solebars usually have ribs top and bottom, creating a "C" shaped cross-section. The total thickness of these ribs should be subtracted from the overall solebar height to give the height of the flat area required here, and thus the height of the decals.

Wooden solebars were typically 12in high, but the upper part was usually obscured by the overhanging curb rail of the body. Subtract this overhang to give the height of the decals.

The scale of model(s) you are building.