A detailed model of a wagon built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company for Shirebrook Colliery of Mansfield.
Right in the centre of the East Midlands coal field and with excellent rail connections Shirebrook wagons travelled extensively to deliver coal, the Midland and later LMS railway companies offering easy connections to London, Gloucester, Bristol, Bath and Bournemouth, North Wales and West Coast destinations all the way to Glasgow.
This wagon is supplied with a removable coal load.