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Model of 3-plank open wagon number 11 belonging to E Marsh of the Pont Hall blue pennant stone quarries at Cross Keys, Monmouthshire.
This open wagon is fitted with NEM couplings and metal wheels, allowing it to roll freely and therefore allowing wagons to run in long rakes behind even small locomotives as may sometimes be tasked with hauling them. This wagon also has internal plank detailing, a load need not be fitted if you do not wish to add one.
Coal haulage in South Wales was streamlined and made more efficient when GWR introduced the 21-ton mineral wagon in the 1920s. A few decades later, the 21-ton mineral wagon served an essential purpose in the early stages of British Railways control over the new national railway network.This wagon is liveried in a Stephenson & Clarke eye-catching pale green. The hook couplings enable easier coupling of other rolling stock and locomotives on your layout. It features die-cast spoked wheels.
A nicely detailed model of a 5 plank open wagons as owned by David Parsons & Son, proprietors of the Stour colliery and brickworks at Cradley Heath.
Star Salt of Chester operated this bark red painted van, with their name displayed in yellow lettering to advertise their brand and products to passengers as their wagons traveled the rail network.
Detailed model of a 7 plank coal wagon operated by Richard White Coal Factors of Evesham
A large coal factor company, Lowell Baldwin of Bristol supplied coal to many industrial consumers, justifying the purchase of these large capacity wagons. The higher capacity were ideal wagons for delivering coal for the boilers of many industries and town gas plant, where large quantities of coal were required daily.20-ton capacity coal wagons became more popular in the 1930's, as the railway companies offered a better rate per ton for coal haulage in these larger wagons. The railway company gained in efficiency, moving fewer wagons needed less locomtoive power and less shunting to deliver the same weight of coal loaded in older 10-ton wagons. To assist with unloading these high-capacity wagons two doors were fitted in each side, plus end and often four bottom hatch doors.
A 4-plank open wagon painted in the red livery of B W company.This wagon is marked for return to Radstock on the Somerset and Dorset railway.
This model features the new Dapol 7-plank open wagon body with fixed ends and 9-feet wheelbase chassis incorporating NEM coupler mounting pockets.
This model replicates wagon 17 in the fleet of Somerset coal merchant Small & Son. This was a family concern which grew to deal in farm produce and supplies as well as coal, describing their business as coal, corn, forage & lime merchants. Depots were operated in Taunton, Tiverton Junction, Thornfalcon (Chard branch) and Norton (Fitzwarren), serving the rural and aggricultral communities of West Somerset and North Devon.
Modelled from the GWR diagram O19, built from 1914 to 1927, these long open wagons were designed for carrying timber, but rapidly found favour for conveying long steel sections, particularly tube, from South Wales. Recoded Tube by BR these wagons remained in service into the 1950s, with similar though later built GWR Open C wagons still to be found in the 1970s.These Rapido Trains models will feature the usual wealth of detail, two types of wheels, separately fitted lashing rings so you can easily model tided down loads and tooling variants to cover both flat-sided and sack truck door versions. The models are also fitted with metal bearings that will help with smooth running and shunting.Model finished in Port of London Authority bauxite brown livery.
Ideal for producing your own models.
Oxford Rail appear to have choosen the North British Railway 'Jubilee' design coal wagon with its distinctive heavily braced end door as the prototype for their 4 plank wagon.This model is finished as Hamilton Palace Colliery wagon 153, one of a number of colliery owned wagons built to the robust Jubilee design.
Oxford Rail have choosen the North British Railway 'Jubilee' design coal wagon with its distinctive heavily braced end door as the prototype for their 4 plank wagon.
Many open wagons would find their way into private ownership, with each company then commissioning one of the Big Four companies to move their wagons to their destination. These plank wagons are typical of the kind that could be seen making up a colourful patchwork behind one of the Big Four's freight engines.These open wagons are fitted with NEM couplings and metal wheels, allowing them to roll freely and therefore allowing them to run in long rakes behind even small locomotives as may sometimes be tasked with hauling them. These wagons also have internal plank detailing, a load need not be fitted if you do not wish to add one. This triple pack contains wagons lettered for BW&Co, Bentley Colliery number 323, J. James or Exeter number 96 and Newstead colliery number 1110.