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.
Supplied with metal wheels and 3 link couplings.
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!.