British Railways Wagons Eras 4-5

The GWR, and subsequently BR, built open wagons like the one depicted by this Bachmann Branchline model specifically for china clay traffic. With a 9ft wheelbase and 12T capacity, the wooden planked body sat on top of a metal underframe and our model reflects this, with fine detailing engraved and moulded onto the body. The chassis meanwhile incorporates brake gear and sports tie-bars between the axleboxes. Decorated to the same high standard as any Bachmann Branchline product, the model also includes a representation of the tent hood fitted to the wagon to protect the valuable china clay load – these hoods replacing the earlier tarpaulin covers.

The ex-GWR brake vans were gradually withdrawn from general use under BR ownership as the brake wheel was outside the cabin, but many continued in service on Western region anyway. This van is labelled as being allocated to Banbury.
Later the engineers found the enclosed verandahs to be most useful for the secure storage of tools etc, resulting the GWR vans being found all over the BR network well into the 1980s!
Eras 4-5 1948-1966

The single-ended GWR brake vans were withdrawn from traffic use in the 1960s, as national agreements with the unions required access to both ends of brake vans. However hundreds of the GWR vans found a home with the engineers who appreaciated the large enclosed van section and solid-sided veranda which prevented loose items and tools from being lost 'overboard' while travelling.

Era 4/5 1948-1966

A very good model of the standard BR 16-ton steel mineral wagon. Over 200,000 of these wagons were built to replace wooden wagons used for coal and mineral traffic.

This Bachmann Branchline model depicts a wagon with a pressed steel end door and side doors which have top flaps – this aided manual unloading in coal yards. Bottom discharge doors are also present whilst this wagon sports double sided brakes and is fitted with 3-hole disc wheels which are of metal construction. The unmistakable look of the 16T Mineral Wagon is expertly replicated, with this Branchline model boasting separately fitted metal door stops, brake gear, linkage and hand brake levers, along with metal buffer heads and cosmetic coupling hooks. Authentic colours and typefaces are employed during the livery application prototype, completing this high-fidelity model.

An excellent model of the BR sand tippler wagon.

Eras 4-5

A detailed model of the later Ministry of Transport 16-ton open mineral wagon painted in the MoT brown colours.

These wagons were built during the later part of WW2, production continuing until around 1950. The wagons were ordered due to the steady deterioration of the elderly wooden wagon fleet under wartime conditions.

Eras 4-6

A good model of the BR design shock-absorbing covered box van with planked body.

The side mounted shock absorbers allowed the body limited movement end-to-end, offering protection for the load from the sudden jolts of shunting.

A good model of the BR design shock-absorbing covered box van with corrugated steel ends.

The side mounted shock absorbers allowed the body limited movement end-to-end, offering protection for the load from the sudden jolts of shunting.

Eras 4-5

BR midland region numbered wagon.

The Southern Railway built batches of their standard box vans with the distinctive alternating broad and narrow planks for all of the major railway companies during WW2. These vans passed to BR in 1948, carrying regional numbers appropriate to their previous owners.

Painted in the BR bauxite colour for vacuum brake fitted goods wagons, many of these wagons carried this livery until withdrawn in the 1970s and it is commonly seen today on preserved examples.

This model will be painted in the early BR bauxite livery.

This model will be painted in the later BR goods brown bauxite livery.

A model of the LNER design ventilated box van with corrugated steel end panels. This model is finished in BR bauxite livery with the later boxed lettering.

This model is painted in post war British Army bronze green and supplied with a model tank load.

Era 4 1948-1956

Originally this was principally gunpowder and frequently used to transport explosives for mines and quarries, this name was retained for use on these vans long after other explosives were developed. During peacetime the cargoes included all kinds of explosives and potentially explosive material, plus ammunition deliveries for reserve and cadet units across Britain.

GWR orders for the Fruit D express fruit van were still being delivered into the 1950s. These useful vans were widely used for express parcels the growing small consignments business.
Many of these relatively new vans were still in service when the change to blue livery occured in the late 1960s/ early 1970s, the last examples surviving in service until about 1980, often travelling widely in parcels service.
This model painted in rail blue is ideal for the 1970s era, the twilight years of the Western regions' diesel hydraulic locomotive fleet, when many of these vans were used to transport spare parts from Swindon works to locomotive depots.

This model is finished in the BR maroon livery applied from 1958, with many of these Fruit D vans remaining in traffic into the blue era of the 1970s.

A well made model of the BR fruit van (mex) finished in bauxite livery.
These vans were converted from cattle wagons by the GWR, being fitted with full-height side doors and the open side panels planked over.

Model of a Southern Railway design ventilated van with the distinctive tri-arc roof built after nationalisation and painted in BR goods grey livery

The Diagram 1410 van was the most numerous ventilated van built by the London & South Western Railway (LSWR). Construction began in 1885 and more than 1,000 were built, with various detail differences introduced over the lifetime of the vans. These characterful vehicles feature outside framing, sliding doors and were built with a reduced height when compared with vans built later on. From 1912 the LSWR built further vans to the new Diagram 1406 which were some 7 inches taller than the Diagram 1410, and one such van is the subject of this model. Depicting a van which has survived to Nationalisation, this model sports Lift Link brakes, Panter axle boxes and plain tapered buffers. Later in 1912, the Diagram 1408 van was introduced which featured hinged doors rather than sliding – this allowed the van body to be slightly wider, increasing the payload. Both the Diagram 1410 and 1408 van also feature in the EFE Rail range.

An exciting new model, these large and quite distinctive hopper wagons were fitted with extra boards to provide volume capacity for 20 tons of coke to be carried.
Coke hopper wagons were built first by the LMS and later the design was adopted as a standard British Railways type. Often seen running in complete trains from the coke ovens to the iron and steel furnaces, frequently empty wagons returned in small numbers conveyed by regular goods trains.

A detailed model of the early LMS standard design of goods brake van, a direct development of the last Midland Railway design. These vans were built with and without side lookout duckets, both styles remaining in service into the 1960s.

This model of a van with lookout duckets is painted in the British Railways goods grey livery.

This model is painted in British Railways wagon grey.

Era 5 1957-1966

Model of a BR ventilated box van in British Railways bauxite livery

GWR orders for the Fruit D express fruit van were still being delivered into the 1950s. These useful vans were widely used for express parcels the growing small consignments business. Being a passenger rated van able to run in passenger trains the BR maroon livery was applied.

These vans were used for the growing parcels and small consignments business, later many being adopted by the engineering departments as material and locomotive parts carriers.

This model is finished in British Railways grey livery and allocated to Basingstoke, one of the connections between the GWR and Southern networks.

One of the key drivers of industrial growth throughout the 20th century was the idea that good could be transported in standardised containers. Flat wagons provided a huge amount of versatility due to the fact that goods could be loaded into the container before being placed onto a train, and the container could be removed at the other end to continue its journey to the customer.

The most common type of Conflat wagon was the Conflat A which could carry two type A containers or a single type B container. The Conflat B wagon was able to carry wider containers such as a pair of AFP frozen food containers.

Britain’s railways were developed primarily to move freight and the early railway companies employed vans of many different designs to transport goods and merchandise that required covered transport. Each railway company had its own designs, and the Great Western Railway was no different, with most of its vans utilising a 10ft wheelbase with a 12T capacity. Many of the GWR’s vans employed a wooden planked body, mounted on a metal chassis, and vacuum brakes were widely fitted; all characteristics portrayed by this Bachmann Branchline model.

The distinctive slope-sided appearance is expertly replicated on this Branchline model, which sports double sided brakes and is fitted with 3-hole disc wheels which are of metal construction. Boasting separately fitted brake gear, linkage and hand brake levers, the model also comes fitted with metal buffer heads and cosmetic coupling hooks. Authentic colours and typefaces are employed during the livery application prototype, completing this high-fidelity model.

This model is a GWR designed 45-ton capacity wagon as running during the early British Railways period, painted in the light grey goods wagon livery. Several suitable loads are available, including large boilers and electricity power transformers.

Eras 4-5

An good model of the 30-ton bogie bolster wagon painted in the BR goods grey livery. This model is supplied complete with load of steel pipes.

Eras 4-5

This Bachmann Branchline model depicts a wagon with rivetted side and end doors, along with bottom discharge doors. Double sided brakes are fitted, and the model employs 3-hole disc wheels which are of metal construction. The distinctive slope-sided appearance is expertly replicated, with this Branchline model boasting separately fitted metal door stops, brake gear, linkage and hand brake levers, along with metal buffer heads and cosmetic coupling hooks. Authentic colours and typefaces are employed during the livery application prototype, completing this high-fidelity model.

The Bachmann Branchline 20T Brake Van has long been the model of choice to bring up the rear of many a goods train and it’s easy to see why this model is still a firm favourite. Capturing the character of the prototype, the Branchline model is adorned with separate handrails, roof vents – which on this example are of the oval torpedo variety – and lamp brackets. The footboards are also separately fitted, allowing different lengths to be modelled to suit the van being modelled – in this case long footboards are present.  This particular brake van also carries end weights, is fitted with end handrails, has planked sides and ends and has planked veranda partitions, whilst the cabin doors have two windowpanes each.

A detailed model of the British Railways standard design of cattle wagon. The design of these wagons was based closely on the late GWR design, altered to incorporate BR standard fittings and components.

A detailed model of the classic BR Presflo covered hopper wagon finished in BR goods brown livery with Rugby Cement advertising and TOPS lettering.

Price to be advised.

Designed for carrying fine powder products these wagons used compressed air to fluidise the load, allowing powder products flow through the discharge pipes like a liquid. This was particularly useful for bulk cement distribution and a great improvement on steel box vans previously used.
In addition to the British Railways owned wagons several of the cement companies purchased or leased wagons for their own regular traffic flows, this wagon carrying the bright yellow livery of Blue Circle Cement.

Sometimes known as Pill Box vans these guards brake vans were designed for the Southern Railway in the 1930s, showing the steady development from the short wheelbase brake vans of earlier years towards the familiar BR standard design of the 1950s. The longer wheelbase (distance between the axles) provided a better ride for the guard, also allowing an increase in the weight and therefore effectiveness of the hand brake. Side lookout duckets allowed the guard to keep an eye on the running of the train and to watch for signals which may need him to apply the brake to help bring the train to a halt.

This model is painted in the British Railways bauxite goods wagon livery.

Era 5 1957-1966

The new Bachmann Branchline tooling allows a range of ‘Palvan’ models to be produced, depicting the various differences incorporated into the different build lots and during their service lives, for example this ‘Palvan’ is fitted with Morton Brakes and the associated tie-bar, oil axleboxes and spindle buffers. With a high level of detail across the model, separately-fitted parts include the door hold open brackets, handrails and chalk boards on each side and end. The bufferbeams sport separate lamp brackets, vacuum pipe brackets and coupling hooks, and the chassis features a full complement of brake gear. Standard tension lock couplings are fitted via NEM pockets whilst optional accessories include the vacuum brake pipe and Instanter couplings.

Era 4 1948-1956

BR Carflat wagons were built between 1959 and 1975. Our version Diag 1/088 represents 340 wagons built to Diagram 1/088 specifically on ex-LMS 60ft chassis with 9ft bogies. The Carflats to this particular diagram were built from 1964 to 1968. Finished in BR Bauxite with Black under frames, this version would have entered use in 1964 after conversion at Derby Works. Without TOPS code. Our model will feature fine detail, high quality finish and NEM coupling pockets.

The LNER constructed a slightly larger 6 plank bodied open wagon for general merchandise service, in place of the 5 plank body favoured by LMS and GWR companies. The LNER design used the RCH wood chassis far longer than the other companies who changed to the stronger steel frame design, resulting in the LNER wagons being quite easily identifyable. This model from Oxford Rail provides modellers with a good and detailed model of these LNER wagons for the first time.

This Coke Hopper triple wagon pack contains three Stanton Ironworks liveried wagons. The hook couplings enable easier coupling of other rolling stock and locomotives on your layout.