North British Railway, LNER

The open wagon provided the major means of transporting raw materials, such as cotton bales, crated goods, barrels etc that were the major part of the general merchandise traffic on most railways. The NBR built this example from 1905 up to 1916 to service this traffic. The original pattern was rated at 8 tons capacity (Tare 5.0.0.), later versions were re-rated to 10 tons (Tare 5.4.0). Early prototypes had fixed sides and ends, however it was soon realised that this created problems when used for general merchandise traffic, later versions had a full height door fitted to the centre of the vehicle. The service life of this type of vehicle was predicted around 30 years and therefore it is doubtful that many would have survived much beyond the mod 1940's. It is believed that the vast majority were scrapped before 1940 as transport demands led to the introduction of more covered goods transport.

These vehicles would have been a common sight on across the NBR network in Scotland and surrounding areas and would have been seen throughout the borders and Northern England. Some may have had more extended 'excursions' further south especially down the East Cost mainline both before grouping and after the introduction of the common user agreement.

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Made from white metal our model has sides with attached axleguards and ends, brake gear, levers and V's. The floor is embossed Plasticard. A fully detailed instruction sheet is included giving detailed lettering and painting information. To download the most recent assembly instructions, current Version 2.00 released April 2002, 2 Sides A4 (38Kb Acrobat 3.01 file).

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Items required to complete the model:-

• Wheels: 12mm diameter open spoke.
• Paint - we recommend Precision Paint or in some cases Humbrol Acrylic: see North British Railway wagon liveries for suggested product numbers.
• Three link couplings.
• Transfers - we recommend HMRS see North British Railway wagon liveries for suggested product numbers.

Paint, wheels and transfers are available from our sister company Wizard Models.

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Wagons on the LNER, No 1, North British, by John Hooper, P 31
A Pictorial Record of LNER wagons, P Tatlow, P12
NBR Wagons some design aspects, G W M Sewell, P12

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