Description
This kit covers the 3500 wagons built at Derby in 1948-9. Although of LMS design, these wagons obviously did not appear in service until after nationalisation. These vehicles were very much the forerunners of the ‘standard’ BR 16 Tonners – with an almost indentical side & end door pattern and with side top doors. Unlike the BR minerals they were fitted bottom discharge doors and, of course, LMS-pattern ‘W’ irons, axleboxes and buffers. Again, these wagon lasted in service well into the 1970s.
This kit has all the underframe & body detail of our Diag. 2109 kit and includes individual leaf springs, couplings and sprung buffers. The side and end doors also open prototypically. To add further variation – this kit includes alternative parts for both welded and rivetted side and end doors. Finely etched builders plates are included with numbers for seven alternate wagons.
