Military Trains OO & OO9

These covered box vans were ordered for use as ambulance vans on the WW1 narrow gauge trench railway system. The tall vans were not a great success on the temporary tracks of the front line, but proved suitable for the more permanent track found on estate railway systems.
Model finished in WD WW1 grey with weathered finish.

The Warwell wagons were built during WW2 to carry tanks arriving from the USA. After 1945 a small fleet was retained by the British Army for moving tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) in the UK and Germany. Surplus wagons were passed on to British Railways, being used as heavy duty road vehicle carriers and for steel traffic.
This model replicates a wagon WW.52 in War Department wartime olive drab livery and marked as on loan to the LMS. Era 3.

A new model of the War Department Warflat bogie flat wagon designed to convey heavy military vehicles during WW2.

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

Era 4 1948-1956

A new model of the War Department Warflat bogie flat wagon designed to convey heavy military vehicles during WW2.

The Hunslet 'Austerity' 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotives were ordered by the Ministry of Supply during WW2 as a standard heavy shunting engine. Hunslet based the design on shunting engines they had built for the steel industry in the late 1930s. They were simple, robust and powerful engines, well suited to heavy shunting tasks, with wheels large enough for local goods service.
After WW2 a number of these engines were retained by the British Army for shunting in their depots. This model is finished in lined blue livery as number 195 working on the Longmoor Military Railway in Hampshire.
DCC Ready, Next18 decoder required for DCC operation.

Detailed model of the WW2 British 13½inch railway gun Gladiator, one of three such guns located around Kent for coastal defence.