Parkside plastic model kit building a GWR 12ton capacity open goods wagon with RCH 17ft6in length 10ft wheelbase chassis. Diagrams O32 (unfitted) or O33 (vacuum fitted) with optional sheet support rail.
Over 11,000 wagons with the longer wheelbase a revised style of strapping built between 1933 and 1940 with over 10,000 unfitted O32 and 948 built with vacuum brake and tarpaulin rails. Most lasted into the 1970s, with some featuring fabricated steel strengthening. The kit covers all variants. Transfers for GWR and BR. These finely moulded plastic wagon kits come complete with pin point axle wheels and bearings, 3 link couplings and transfers.

Marketed by the GWR through the offer of reduced haulage rates the 20-ton steel open wagon began the trend towards the use of higher capacity wagons.

This kit builds a model of the standard GWR 'Felix Pole' 20-ton open wagon. These were purchased by private owners and leased from the GWR by several collieries in the late 1930s. Almost 1,000 of these high capacity wagons were built in the 1920s for Welsh coal traffic. Re-rated to a 21-ton capacity wagon during the Second World War, they were in traffic until the 1960s. Transfers for GWR and BR, and for Norths Navigation Collieries. These finely moulded plastic wagon kits come complete with pin point axle wheels and bearings, 3 link couplings and transfers.

Some of these wagons also operated in locomotive coal service, however as the loco department had it's own design of 20-tonners (kit PS47) these 'traffic' wagons may have been temporarily hijacked!.

The Black Rock Quarries located near Portishead, Somerset was served by sidings from the WC&PR close to the Cadbury Road station. Part of the Roads Reconstruction (1934) group photographs of wagon number 151 after WW2 show usual Roads Reconstruction grey livery with red RR LTD roundels. We have modelled the wagon in a pre-war version of this livery, when the wagon could still have reached the quarries at Portishead.

Parkside Kits PS26 O Gauge GWR 12T Ventilated Box Van Goods Wagen Diag. V23/23/24/26/34 10ft WB
Parkside plastic model kit building a GWR 17ft6in length 10ft wheelbase ventilated box van. The longer wheelbase was better suited to the higher speeds of express goods trains.

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A detailed model kit of a 6 plank open mineral wagon with side and end doors built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company wagon to the RCH 1887 design with pre-printed sides lettered for the Caerbryn Colliery Company in Llandebie.
Supplied complete with wheels, 3 link couplings and sprung buffers.