Bachmann OO9 393-027 Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway ex-WD WW1 Covered Goods Wagon Crimson
These covered box vans were ordered for use as ambulance vans on the WW1 narrow gauge trench railway system. Not a success on the rough battlefield track they were useful on more permanent railway systems.
This model is finished in the crimson livery of the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, a tourist miniature railway line opened in 1960 with rolling stock from the Nocton Estates railways.
Built for use on the extensive network of 2ft/600mm narrow gauge lines which served the trenches of WW1 the vans were intended to provide for delivery of supplies and evacuation of casualties. The tall vans proved unsuitable for use over the uneven and often temporary track of the front lines, so were mostly confined to rear areas and workshops. The vans proved far more successful after the war on more permanent narrow gauge railways and tramways, including farm and estate railways. However the short haul distances of many of these lines mitigated against the use of vans, open wagons being quicker and easier to load, unload and cover with a tarpaulin for the journey in inclement weather. A number have survived, often as stores vans, to be purchased for preservation, where they make useful stores vans!
Wagons features:
- metal spoked wheels with pin point bearings
- NEM pockets fitted to bogies with standard 009 couplings as used by Liliput and Bachman USA
- working four side and two end doors that slide to open (covered goods wagon only)
- stretchers fitted in WWI covered goods van
- detailed open framed bogie design, brakes in line with wheels
- bogie with or without hand brake equipment
- finely moulded detail, all chains and latches represented