BR Engineers Wagons

Model of Southern Railway crane 1561S as built in SR Black livery, but also suitable for 'twin' 1560S. Allocated around the London area, Guildford & Ashford (Feltham and Nine Elms for S1560). This crane is currently preserved at the Swanage Railway in Dorset.
Length 393mm.

The Grampus was one of the most numerous engineering wagons used by BR, being suitable for a wide range of duties. One could usually be found lurking around any sizable station or goods depot being used as a convenient carrier of anything which needed to be moved.

As part of the development of the long wheelbase air braked wagons intended for fast goods trains a flat bed stake sided steel carrier wagon was produced. This proved ill-suited for many steel products, so following trials with a low-sided body 1,1000 SPA wagons were built. These have low, steel drop-door side bodies able to retain coiled products like rod/wire and featured floor bolsters suitable for loading and unloading by fork-lift truck.
As with many of the air-braked wagons there have been many subsequent modifications, both for revenue and departmental uses.

Expected quarter 3 2018

A detailed model of the BR engineers Turbot bogie open ballast wagons featuring a finely moulded body with many separately fitted details.

The railway engineers departments were divided into areas of specialisation, principally mechanical (locomotives & rolling stock), civil (track and infrastructure) and signal & telegraph (signalling and communications). Each department used spare coaching stock for a range of purposes, from moving stores to mobile workshops. Vehicles fitted with hand brakes were the first choice as these coaches would often be stored during the week and these vehicles could also be used as both barrier coaches and as guards' vans for moving other vehicles between depots and repair works.

Southern Railway design 4-wheel parcels van finished in BR engineers olive green livery.
Many of these vans were transferred to the engineering departments for use as mobile stores and workshop vans and as static stores at depots.

The Grampus was one of the most numerous engineering wagons used by BR, being suitable for a wide range of duties. One could usually be found lurking around any sizable station or goods depot being used as a convenient carrier of anything which needed to be moved.

The BR engineers' Grampus is a new model for 2008, produced for the first time as a ready-to-run model. This version is one of four numbered models painted in the engineers grey and yellow Dutch style livery. 

Engineering wagons have long been neglected, the Grampus was one of the BR engineers principal open wagons. Everything that needed to be moved to a remote worksite could be loaded into Grampus wagons. Full drop sides allowed ballast and spoil to be unloaded easily, while the removable ends allowed long loads to be accomodated.

The BR engineers' Grampus is a new model for 2008, produced for the first time as a ready-to-run model. This version is one of four numbered models painted in the engineers grey and yellow Dutch style livery. 

Engineering wagons have long been neglected, the Grampus was one of the BR engineers principal open wagons. Everything that needed to be moved to a remote worksite could be loaded into Grampus wagons. Full drop sides allowed ballast and spoil to be unloaded easily, while the removable ends allowed long loads to be accomodated.

The PIKO Track Cleaning wagon has been given a British outline finished as a VAB sliding-wall van in BR Railfreight brown livery.
Fitted with NEM tension lock couplings, this vehicle can form part of a goods train, polishing dust from the rails as it is hauled around your layout.

This model features a finely moulded body/applied livery, profiled wheels and is supplied complete with a fitted track cleaning pad.

This crane, as preserved at the One:One collection in Margate was built for the LNER as number 941599, then rated at 45 tonnes. On entry to BR service the crane would be renumbered multiple times as could be common for departmental rolling stock, first to 330110, then ADRC95218. 

Following a conversion from steam to diesel the crane would re-enter service as ADRC96719. Now rated at 50 tonnes, the crane is preserved and will be on display to the public when the museum opens.

The Hornby crane model includes the supporting trucks as well as a fully posable crane boom and hook, allowing the crane to be posed as if it were rescuing a stricken locomotive.

Following the improvements in production through the 20th century the standard length of rails increased from 45 feet to 60 feet. Now longer than the standard 45-feet bogie bolsters like the GWR Macaw B new 65-feet length rail carrier wagons were built.
The LMS developed bogie flat wagon, designed for use with bolsters for rail or as a flat deck wagon for track panels, was adopted as a standard type by British Railways and allocated the code name Salmon. 894 were constructed between 1949 and 1961 in 15 batches from private wagon builders as well as BR workshops. A great variety of modifications were made over the lives of these wagons, with over 400 being overhauled during the 1980s, receiving modern bogies and train air brakes. Many of these wagons were formed into continuous welded rail trains, while others were fitted with rail cranes to aid handling of jointed rails at relaying sites.
The Hornby Salmon range is a new tooling for 2023 with almost all variants of the wagon catered for. Fitted with diecast chassis, these wagons have fantastic weight that rolls freely on metal wheels. Bolsters are included in the accessory bag can be fitted to represent the different ways these wagons would have appeared.