British Railways Wagons Eras 4-5

A very good model of the standard BR 16-ton steel mineral wagon. Over 200,000 of these wagons were built to replace wooden wagons used for coal and mineral traffic.

An excellent model of the BR sand tippler wagon.

Eras 4-5

A detailed model of the later Ministry of Transport 16-ton open mineral wagon painted in the MoT brown colours.

These wagons were built during the later part of WW2, production continuing until around 1950. The wagons were ordered due to the steady deterioration of the elderly wooden wagon fleet under wartime conditions.

Eras 4-6

A good model of the BR design shock-absorbing covered box van with corrugated steel ends.

The side mounted shock absorbers allowed the body limited movement end-to-end, offering protection for the load from the sudden jolts of shunting.

Eras 4-5

BR midland region numbered wagon.

The Southern Railway built batches of their standard box vans with the distinctive alternating broad and narrow planks for all of the major railway companies during WW2. These vans passed to BR in 1948, carrying regional numbers appropriate to their previous owners.

Painted in the BR bauxite colour for vacuum brake fitted goods wagons, many of these wagons carried this livery until withdrawn in the 1970s and it is commonly seen today on preserved examples.

The BR standard design covered box van could be built using planked sides and doors, or plywood clad sides and doors. Many of these vans ended up with a mixture or the two. Plywood doors fitted to planked sided vans being the most common.

This model will be painted in the early BR bauxite livery.

This model will be painted in the later BR goods brown bauxite livery.

A model of the LNER design ventilated box van with corrugated steel end panels. This model is finished in BR bauxite livery with the later boxed lettering.

A highly detailed model of the small GWR shunters trucks used to provide a place for the shunter to ride safely around goods yards, coupled to the shunting engine. The box and flat floor of the wagon provided storage space for tools and spares, including shunters poles, brake sticks, train tail lamps and spare couplings.

The Bachmann model has been designed to recreate several different designs of shunters trucks as the differences were mainly in detail design. Three versions have been displayed in Bachmanns' display cases covering designs with round turned type handrail knobs, straight angle-iron grab iron brackets and inward-angled angle-iron brackets.

This wagon is painted in the BR black livery lettered for use at the Margam Junction yard and completed with a weathered finish. This depot served the huge steel plant at Port Talbot along with the coal mines and other metal industries in the area.

Era 4 1948-1957

This model is painted in post war British Army bronze green and supplied with a model tank load.

Era 4 1948-1956

Originally this was principally gunpowder and frequently used to transport explosives for mines and quarries, this name was retained for use on these vans long after other explosives were developed. During peacetime the cargoes included all kinds of explosives and potentially explosive material, plus ammunition deliveries for reserve and cadet units across Britain.

GWR orders for the Fruit D express fruit van were still being delivered into the 1950s. These useful vans were widely used for express parcels the growing small consignments business. Being a passenger rated van able to run in passenger trains the BR maroon livery was applied.

These vans were used for the growing parcels and small consignments business, later many being adopted by the engineering departments as material and locomotive parts carriers.

GWR orders for the Fruit D express fruit van were still being delivered into the 1950s. These useful vans were widely used for express parcels the growing small consignments business.
Many of these relatively new vans were still in service when the change to blue livery occured in the late 1960s/ early 1970s, the last examples surviving in service until about 1980, often travelling widely in parcels service.
This model painted in rail blue is ideal for the 1970s era, the twilight years of the Western regions' diesel hydraulic locomotive fleet, when many of these vans were used to transport spare parts from Swindon works to locomotive depots.

This model is finished in the BR maroon livery applied from 1958, with many of these Fruit D vans remaining in traffic into the blue era of the 1970s.

A well made model of the BR fruit van (mex) finished in bauxite livery.
These vans were converted from cattle wagons by the GWR, being fitted with full-height side doors and the open side panels planked over.

The Diagram 1410 van was the most numerous ventilated van built by the London & South Western Railway (LSWR). Construction began in 1885 and more than 1,000 were built, with various detail differences introduced over the lifetime of the vans. These characterful vehicles feature outside framing, sliding doors and were built with a reduced height when compared with vans built later on. From 1912 the LSWR built further vans to the new Diagram 1406 which were some 7 inches taller than the Diagram 1410, and one such van is the subject of this model. Depicting a van which has survived to Nationalisation, this model sports Lift Link brakes, Panter axle boxes and plain tapered buffers. Later in 1912, the Diagram 1408 van was introduced which featured hinged doors rather than sliding – this allowed the van body to be slightly wider, increasing the payload. Both the Diagram 1410 and 1408 van also feature in the EFE Rail range.

The LNER constructed a slightly larger 6 plank bodied open wagon for general merchandise service, in place of the 5 plank body favoured by LMS and GWR companies. The LNER design used the RCH wood chassis far longer than the other companies who changed to the stronger steel frame design, resulting in the LNER wagons being quite easily identifyable. This model from Oxford Rail provides modellers with a good and detailed model of these LNER wagons for the first time.

After Nationalisation, the large fleet of former Private Owner 7 plank wagons were painted in the new house colours of Grey by BR. Our 7 plank wagon recreates this livery in a pristine finish.

The standard 12 Ton Mineral wagon was the most numerous design of coal wagons built in the UK after 1923. Designed to RCH specifications (Railway Clearing House) this most ubiquitous of wagons had a universal length of 16'6" with a width of 8'0" and wheelbase of 9'0". These wagons were of a simple design and employed standard RCH fittings throughout and were originally built as the Oxford Rail model depicts with seven side planks, making an overall body height of 4' 4".

The Oxford Rail Standard RCH 12 Ton Mineral wagon boasts finely engraved body and underframe detail plus NEM couplings.

One of the key drivers of industrial growth throughout the 20th century was the idea that good could be transported in standardised containers. Flat wagons provided a huge amount of versatility due to the fact that goods could be loaded into the container before being placed onto a train, and the container could be removed at the other end to continue its journey to the customer.

The most common type of Conflat wagon was the Conflat A which could carry two type A containers or a single type B container. The Conflat B wagon was able to carry wider containers such as a pair of AFP frozen food containers.

An exciting new model, these large and quite distinctive hopper wagons were fitted with extra boards to provide volume capacity for 20 tons of coke to be carried.
Coke hopper wagons were built first by the LMS and later the design was adopted as a standard British Railways type. Often seen running in complete trains from the coke ovens to the iron and steel furnaces, frequently empty wagons returned in small numbers conveyed by regular goods trains.

A detailed model of the early LMS standard design of goods brake van, a direct development of the last Midland Railway design. These vans were built with and without side lookout duckets, both styles remaining in service into the 1960s.

This model of a van with lookout duckets is painted in the British Railways goods grey livery.

This model is painted in British Railways wagon grey.

Era 5 1957-1966

Model of a BR ventilated box van in British Railways bauxite livery

GWR orders for the Fruit D express fruit van were still being delivered into the 1950s. These useful vans were widely used for express parcels the growing small consignments business. Being a passenger rated van able to run in passenger trains the BR maroon livery was applied.

BR Carflat wagons were built between 1959 and 1975. Our version Diag 1/088 represents 340 wagons built to Diagram 1/088 specifically on ex-LMS 60ft chassis with 9ft bogies. The Carflats to this particular diagram were built from 1964 to 1968. Finished in BR Bauxite with Black under frames, this version would have entered use in 1964 after conversion at Derby Works. Without TOPS code. Our model will feature fine detail, high quality finish and NEM coupling pockets.

The Oxford Rail model has been designed to incorporate several of the changes made to these vans over their long lives. This model finished in later condition with steel-sheathed sides to the van and veranda and finished in early British Railways grey livery.

This model is finished in British Railways grey livery and allocated to Basingstoke, one of the connections between the GWR and Southern networks.

This model is finished in British Railways grey livery and allocated to Bala, the junction point between the GWRs Ruabon, Dolgellau/Dolgelly, Barmouth line and the branch heading off into the rugged North Wales hills to reach Blaenau Ffestiniog.

This model is a GWR designed 45-ton capacity wagon as running during the early British Railways period, painted in the light grey goods wagon livery. Several suitable loads are available, including large boilers and electricity power transformers.

Eras 4-5

An good model of the 30-ton bogie bolster wagon painted in the BR goods grey livery. This model is supplied complete with load of steel pipes.

Eras 4-5

A detailed model of the British Railways standard design of cattle wagon. The design of these wagons was based closely on the late GWR design, altered to incorporate BR standard fittings and components.

A good model of the BR design shock-absorbing covered box van with planked body.

The side mounted shock absorbers allowed the body limited movement end-to-end, offering protection for the load from the sudden jolts of shunting.

A detailed model of the classic BR Presflo covered hopper wagon finished in BR goods brown livery with Rugby Cement advertising and TOPS lettering.

Price to be advised.

Designed for carrying fine powder products these wagons used compressed air to fluidise the load, allowing powder products flow through the discharge pipes like a liquid. This was particularly useful for bulk cement distribution and a great improvement on steel box vans previously used.
In addition to the British Railways owned wagons several of the cement companies purchased or leased wagons for their own regular traffic flows, this wagon carrying the bright yellow livery of Blue Circle Cement.

Sometimes known as Pill Box vans these guards brake vans were designed for the Southern Railway in the 1930s, showing the steady development from the short wheelbase brake vans of earlier years towards the familiar BR standard design of the 1950s. The longer wheelbase (distance between the axles) provided a better ride for the guard, also allowing an increase in the weight and therefore effectiveness of the hand brake. Side lookout duckets allowed the guard to keep an eye on the running of the train and to watch for signals which may need him to apply the brake to help bring the train to a halt.

This model is painted in the British Railways bauxite goods wagon livery.

Era 5 1957-1966

Bananas required a special type of box van with insulation to avoid changes in temperature during transit. These vans often ran as block trains at express goods speed, sometimes even hauled by an express passenger locomotive, to ensure the fruit was delivered promptly to market, fresh off the ships!

Model of the standard BR 16-ton mineral wagon painted in the standard BR goods grey.

A weathered version of the BR standard 16-ton mineral wagon in goods grey livery

Era 4 1948-1956

After Nationalisation, the large fleet of former Private Owner 7 plank wagons were painted in the new house colours of Grey by BR. Our 7 plank wagon recreates this livery in a weathered finish.

The standard 12 Ton Mineral wagon was the most numerous design of coal wagons built in the UK after 1923. Designed to RCH specifications (Railway Clearing House) this most ubiquitous of wagons had a universal length of 16'6" with a width of 8'0" and wheelbase of 9'0". These wagons were of a simple design and employed standard RCH fittings throughout and were originally built as the Oxford Rail model depicts with seven side planks, making an overall body height of 4' 4".

The Oxford Rail Standard RCH 12 Ton Mineral wagon boasts finely engraved body and underframe detail plus NEM couplings.

Dimensions - Length 112mm

Period 1970's

Dimensions - Length 112mm.

Period 1970's