Parkside Kits OO PC79 GWR Horsebox Kit
Diagram N13. 300 of these were built in the 1920s with many lasting into the 1950s and 60s. Seen throughout Britain carrying horses to racecourses and stables, invariably marshalled in passenger or parcel trains. These finely moulded plastic wagon kits come complete with pin point axle wheels and bearings.
Horsebox vans were a common sight on Briatins railways until the 1960s. This model kit is the GWR design dating from the 1920s, with a grooms' compartment, large side doors to allow horses to be loaded and unloaded easily and a stowage compartment for fodder.
Equiped with passenger type suspension, vacuum brakes and often steam heating these horseboxes would be conveyed by passenger trains on many branchlines and by secondary trains on the mainline. Long trains of horseboxes were also seen sometimes, especially when a major race meet or polo tournament was imminent!