Slaters Plastikard O Gauge 7042 NER/LNER/BR 20ton Wood Body Coal Hopper Wagon Kit

Detailed plastic kit building one of the North Eastern Railway 20 ton coal hopper wagons. The NER was one of the earliest builders of high capacity railway wagons, providing many of their stations and depots with coal drops to accept bulk deliveries. These wagons remained in service throughout the LNER era, with some examples still in service into the 1950s. The building of steel bodied hopper wagons from the 1930s, a programme accelerated by British Railways in the 1950s, allowed these wood bodies wagons to be withdrawn.