Wagons of the Big Four

An excellent model of the classic 7-plank open coal wagon painted in the LNER goods grey livery, lettered NE.

These 7-plank end door wagons were used in coal and mineral service, the end doors allowing the wagons to be emptied quickly. Built to specifications laid down by the railway companies through the Railways Clearing House (RCH) these wagons used a range of standard parts, allowing them to be repaired at any railway or private repair station. The LMS and LNER used many standard RCH wagons, while the GWR and SR re-designed their standard wagons to use the RCH parts.

An excellent model of the classic 7-plank open coal wagon painted in the SR goods brown livery.

While the Southern is not well known for its coal traffic several thousands of tons per year were raised from pits in the Kent coal field for which the Southern needed a fleet of these basic, stocky coal wagons. The additon of the end door allowed the wagons to be emptied quickly into power station bunkers of ships' holds by tipping.

A model of the LNER design steel-bodied open merchandise wagon fitted with wood doors. A devlopment of this wagons design became the BR standard pattern.

This model will be painted in LNER oxide goods wagon livery.

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 without lookout duckets is painted in the LMS bauxite colour.

Bachmann 38-675 00 Gauge is a  highly detailed model of the small GWR Canons Marsh Bristol 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.

Era 3 1923-1947

Bachmann 38-677 00 Gauge GWR Old Oak Common Shunters Truck

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 GWR goods grey livery lettered for use at Old Oak Common, which was the major locomotive and passenger coaching stock depot for London. Shunters trucks were used around the coach yards to assemble trains ready for hauling into Paddington station.

Era 3 1923-1947

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 MS.3 in War Department wartime olive drab livery and marked as on loan to the GWR. Era 3.

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.

Hornby Railways R6731A OO Gauge LMS 20 Ton Coke Hopper Wagon

An exciting new model from Hornby for 2016, 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.

New model of the last design of LMS goods train brake van. These long wheelbase vans with large cabins were built from the mid-1930s, with the last batches built by British Railways after nationalisation.

New model of the London & South Western Railway 'New Van' goods train brake van design introduced circa 1915.
Model finished in LSWR brown goods wagon livery with Venetian red ends.
Era 2 1877-1922

Model of a 5 plank end door china clay wagon in GWR grey livery. These wagons were used to convey china clay from the clay dries at the quarries to the UK potteries, paper plants and ports for export. When loaded the wagons were covered by a tarpaulin to prevent contamination of the load.
Cornwall was the main source for china clay so the GWR owned a fleet of these wagons, with more being built by British Railways after nationalisation, these later wagons remaining in service until the early 1980s.
Era 3 1923-1948 (grouping)

An excellent model of the Great Western's distinctive Toad goods brake van with it's single large veranda. Painted in the Great Western dark grey goods livery the van carries Didcot as it's allocation. Set at the junction of the Oxford/Birmingham and Bristol/South Wales/South West routes Didcot remains a major centre for the rail freight businesses today, In GWR days the depot and goods yard here also sent goods for export to continental Europe and beyond over the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton route.

Era 3

A nicely detailed model of a 5 plank open wagon painted in the London & North Eastern Railways' goods grey livery, lettered NE.

Most railway company 5 plank wagons were used as general merchandise wagons, conveying any kind of load which could be placed in an open wagon and sheeted down for weather protection. 7 plank wagons were preferred for minerals and coal service, which helped keep the lower-sided wagons clean.

An excellent model of the classic 7-plank open coal wagon painted in the LMS goods grey livery.

These 7-plank end door wagons were used in coal and mineral service, the end doors allowing the wagons to be emptied quickly. Built to specifications laid down by the railway companies through the Railways Clearing House (RCH) these wagons used a range of standard parts, allowing them to be repaired at any railway or private repair station. The LMS and LNER used many standard RCH wagons, while the GWR and SR re-designed their standard wagons to use the RCH parts.

10-ton cattle wagon in LNER bauxite livery lettered NE.

Bachmann Branchline 37-730C 00 Gauge 12 Ton Ventilated Van GWR Dark Grey

Model of a GWR ventilated goods box van in GWR goods dark grey livery.

Era 3