Bachmann OO9 393-026A Nocton Estates ex-WD WW1 Covered Goods Wagon Light Grey Weathered
While the ambulance vans may not have been successful on the wartime trench railways the WD vans were useful additions Nocton Estate potato railways network. The vans appear to have been used as mobile stores for items like sacks, which could then be moved quickly to where they were needed.
Model finished in Nocton Estates light grey livery.
The Nocton Estate Light Railway was one of two large systems of narrow gauge railways in Lincolnshire using ex-WD wagons to transport the annual potato crop to local mainline railway stations. The estates principal customer being Smiths Crisps. Several smaller farm and estate lines also used the readily-available ex-WD equipment and some preserved wagons were previously owned by Smiths Crisps.
Wagons features:
- metal spoked wheels with pin point bearings
- NEM pockets fitted to bogies with standard 009 couplings as used by Liliput and Bachman USA
- working four side and two end doors that slide to open (covered goods wagon only)
- stretchers fitted in WWI covered goods van
- detailed open framed bogie design, brakes in line with wheels
- bogie with or without hand brake equipment
- finely moulded detail, all chains and latches represented