Parkside Kits O Gauge PS28 GWR 12T Covered Goods Wagon Plywood Body 10ft wb V36/37
Detailed plastic model kit building a model of the GWR plywood sided ventilated box vans of diagram V36 or V37.
Plywood was used as an alternative to planks for ventilated box vans from the late 1930s. This GWR design dates from 1944 and can be built as diagram V36 with vacuum brakes or diagram V37 with hand brake only. The last GWR orders of these vans were completed after nationalisation as BR diagrams 1/203 (fitted) and 1/205 (unfitted). Many of the GWR V37 and BR 1/205 vans were retro-fitted with vacuum brakes during the 1950s and the last of these vans were withdrawn in the 1970s. Transfers supplied for GWR and BR liveries.
Supplied with metal wheels and 3 link couplings.
Like many GWR wagon builds these plywood sided vans were built to two diagram numbers, one for wagons with vacuum train brakes and another for the identical wagons with hand brakes only.
These GWR diagram V36 and V37 plywood sided vans continued to be built after WW2, with the last GWR orders being completed by British Railways during 1949. 100 vans were built with vacuum train brake under BR wagon diagram 1/203 and a further 230 unfitted vans were given diagram 1/205. Through the 1950s British Railways made an effort to convert as many trains as possible to being formed entirely with wagons fitted with vacuum train brakes under the control of the driver. Many of the newest pre-Nationalisation wagons built through the 1940s with 10ft (or longer) wheelbase steel underframes were retro-fitted with vacuum brakes, including the GWR built V37 and BR diagram 1/205 wagons.