Accurascale OO ACC2425 BR W2768W ex-GWR Siphon G Diagram M34 BR Rail Blue Livery

The GWR traffic department made extensive use of the gangway fitted Siphon G ventilated milk vans for carrying passenger luggage, parcels and pre-sorted mail by regular passenger trains services and by the network of dedicated parcels and mail trains. In the mid 1920s a revised design of Siphon G appeared with inside body framing, the external vertical planked body now presenting a much more pleasing appearance. Vehicles to this basic style continued to be constructed into the early British Railways era, with the last being withdrawn circa 1980 having been used as newspaper sorting and packing vans, taking the daily national papers into the West of England.
Model finished as BR Siphon G W2768W in rail blue livery. This is one of the diagram M.34 vehicles with louvres plated over for ambulance train duty and returned to service as a parcels van.