Bachmann OO 38-675 GWR Canons Marsh Bristol Shunters Truck
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
The Great Western Railway built shunting trucks to allow shunters to ride on the running boards around shunting yards, a quicker and safer option than walking or riding locomotive footsteps. Model features include M3 and M4 types, BR and GWR lamp irons and upright and sloping handrail types.
Models are available as; 38-675 GWR Grey livery Canons Marsh, Bristol, 38-676 GWR Grey livery Newton Abbot, 38-677 GWR Grey livery Old Oak Common, 38-678 BR Grey livery Loco Dept and 38-679 BR Grey Margam Jn weathered.
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 the Bristol Canons Marsh depot. This busy location in the centre of Bristol, behind the cathedral and alongside the city docks, was one of the major goods terminals in Bristol. A very large goods shed was provided for interchange with road transport and a large yard used to sort wagons with traffic to and from ships in the docks. Several shunters trucks were allocated here.