Dapol O Gauge 7F-043-007 BR Turbot Bogie Ballast Wagon Engineers Dutch Livery DB978281

Detailed ready to run O gauge model of BR Turbot bogie ballast wagon DB978281 finished in grey and yellow Dutch livery.
These wagons were built from vacuum brake equipped Bogie Bolster E wagons to provide a modern, power braked and higher capacity ballast wagon, often used with ballast cleaner trains to carry away waste ballast. The wagons found many other uses, including carrying large boulders to create 'rock armour' sea defences. While replaced in Network Rail service many Turbots continue to serve the permanent way engineers of London Underground and many heritage railways

£66.50

MRP £78.19

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(Product Ref 105969)

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During the early 1970's BR found that the Bogie Bolster 'E' wagons were becoming redundant. Being relativity young,and acknowledging an emerging need within the engineers department, due to ageing stock the decision was taken to rebuilt some of these bogie bolsters into ballast wagons by fitting a high-sided body to the existing chassis.

BR found itself with a large fleet of young but under-used Bogie Bolster E wagons in the 1970s, 1200 of the type having been built in 1961 and 1962 but proving too short to be useful for steel traffic. As the engineers fleet at the time was varied and elderly, it was decided to rebuild some of these Bogie Bolsters as ballast wagons.

A low-sided 3-door body was constructed and a steel plate fitted onto the ends to prevent loads from spilling on to the draw-gear. The wagons were first painted in civil engineers 'Dutch' livery and designated YCV under TOPS with the fish-kind of Turbot. Later some of the fleet were repainted by EWS in maroon and gold.

The numbers allocated to these wagons was from DB978000 and ultimately almost 1000 were at Sheldon an converted, using the majority of the source wagon fleet. Wagons up to DB978746 were converted at Shildon, Swindon and Doncaster upto 1988..

Pinpoint axles
High detail, multi-component bogie construction with metal coil springs
Accurate chassis design and underframe detail
Sprung buffers
Working 'instanter' coupling
Profiled metal wheels
Separate side doors, stanchions and debris deflection plates
Separate counterbalance springs and door arms

By modelling the doors and stancions separately,we have been able to to accurately depict the fit of these parts with prototypical gaps between doors and wagon floor. For those who wish, it is possible with a minor amount of alteration to 'pose' the door position in any configuration.

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