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 GWR goods grey livery lettered for use at Newton Abbott, a major rail hub in South Devon serving nearby industries and goods trains along the south Devon coast. A large locomotive repair facility was built here, able to carry out major overhauls on steam locomotives.
Era 3 1923-1947