North British Railway, LNER & British Railways

Like all railways the NBR had a substantial demand for high quality coal for use in the locomotive fleet. In 1920 the NBR realised that their existing practice of using ordinary mineral wagons was inefficient. An order for a total of 510 purpose built wagons to diagram 119 was made, 200 from Hamilton Wagon Company in 1920, a further 250 from Pickerings in 1921 and the balance from their own works. Because of the nature of these vehicles, ie a dedicated specialist wagon, they had long service lives. Over 400 were handed over to British Rail in 1948, many of which survived well into the 1950's and some stragglers lasted until the demise of steam power in the late 1960's.

They were seen all over the mainline network of the NBR, wherever there was a requirement for loco coal and of course in transit to and from the colliery.

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Made from white metal our model has sides and ends with separate axleguards, brake gear, levers,V's and Spencer pattern buffers with steel heads. For convenience of modellers wishing to use etched w-irons we supply separate spring and axle box castings. 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 March 2002, 2 Sides A4 (49Kb Acrobat 3.01 file).

To read the instructions you will need Adobe Acrobat reader (v3.01 or better). Click 'Get Acrobat Reader' to get a copy of Acrobat Reader: Note this may involve a long download of between 0.5 Mb & 8 Mb depending on the selected version.

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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, No1 "North British", J Hooper, P51
NBR Wagons, Some Design Aspects, G M Sewell P27
A Pictorial Record of LNER Wagons, P Tatlow, P55

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