British Railways Kits

Plastic kit to build a model of the BR standard design guards goods brake van. The kit can also be detailed as the earlier LNER design van, from which the standard design was created.
Supplied with metal wheels, 3 link couplings and sprung buffers

A highly detailed plastic model kit of the BR design shock absorbing open wagon.
Sock absorbing wagons were introduced in the 1930s to provide extra shock protection during shunting for more fragile goods. Springs were mounted alongside the solebars and a slightly shorter body was fitted, secured to allow longitudinal movement attached to and controlled by the springs, instead of the body being rigidly fixed to the underframe. Typical loads for shock opens would include bricks and earthenware products like sewer pipes.
Supplied with metal wheels, 3 link couplings and sprung buffers

This kit builds a detailed model of the insulated version of the BR standard box van design, lacking the end ventilators.
Supplied with metal wheels, 3 link couplings and sprung buffers

Slaters Plastikard 7067 O Gauge BR 13 ton Conflat Wagon

Kit to build a detailed model of the British Rail 4-wheel container flat wagon.
Glue and paints are required to assemble and complete the model (not included)

O gauge plastic wagon kit for the LNER and British Railways long wheelbase 12 ton insulated 'blue spot' fish van, LNER diagram 214, BR diagram 80.
BR built 1,000 of these vans based closely on the final LNER design they supplemented in service. Kit contains parts for oil or roller bearing axleboxes and transfers for BR livery. Supplied with sprung buffers, metal wheels and 3 link couplings.

Parkside O gauge kit PS112 LMS/LNER/BR Gunpowder Van Kit

Transfers included for LMS (post 1936 and wartime), LNER and BR wagons.
Supplied with metal wheels and 3 link couplings.

Parkside plastic model kit for the LMS/LNER/BR 21-ton Double Bolster Wagon.
Developed from the LNER plate wagon design these 21-ton capacity double bolster wagon were built for both the LNER and LMS. Later the design was adopted by British Railways as a standard type and around 2,400 were built in total. The last examples of these wagons were withdrawn in the 1970s, replaced by the new air braked wagon fleet. The kit is supplied with a pipe load, however the wagons carried a wide range of long loads including timber (planks) and lengths of structural metal sections. Two could be run together or with a low-sided runner wagon to convey loads longer than a single wagon.
Supplied with transfers for LMS, LNER and BR 1950s-1970s.
Supplied with metal wheels and 3 link couplings.

Parkside plastic model wagon kit for the BR plate wagon fitted with plate trestles.
This design of wagon allowed over-sized steel plates to be carried on a trestle mounted on the wagon. These wagons remained in service into the 1970s. Kit includes securing chains and shackles. Transfers for BR 1950s – 1970s.
Supplied with metal wheels and 3 link couplings.

These low sided wagons were used for carrying the heavy ingots of crude iron known as 'pigs' from the smelting furnace to the steelworks for refining into steel. Easy to assemble from the correctly coloured injection moulded component. Kits include Transfers. Buffers are sprung and 3-link couplings are included on all models, while the BR wagons also feature working axlebox springs and moveable brake levers. Fine scale metal tyred wheels on pin-point axles supplied, 3-hole disc for the BR types. Fully illustrated instructions included.

British Railways built 1,000 of these robust low-sided wagons to carry basic pig iron produced by blast furnaces for use in iron casting processes or further refining and conversion to steel. Later these wagons were used for carrying steel coils, lasting until the early 1980s.

Model kit building a detailed replica of the British Railways shock absorbing covered box van, complete with underframe details for the visible areas behind the headstocks.
Supplied with metal wheels, 3 link couplings and sprung buffers

Model kit to build a detailed replica of the BR Vanwide box van in original vacuum brake configuration.
Supplied with metal wheels, 3 link couplings and sprung buffers

Highly detailed kit to build a model of the standard BR box van.
These vans have had very long lives, built in the 1950s and remaining in service into the 1980s. Even today a significant number still serve as tool and stores vans on heritage railways, with examples to be found in most heritage freight trains.
Supplied with metal wheels, 3 link couplings and sprung buffers

Slaters Plastikard 7062 0 Gauge BR 12t Standard or Fruit Van with Plywood Sides

This kit builds a highly detailed model of the British Railways standard plywood sided ventilated box van diagram 1/213 with parts for the Fruit Van diagram 1/233