North Eastern Railway, LNER & British Railways

Photograph of Dgm a F6, in early NER livery, model by Claire and David Williamson.
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Pricing and availability

The NER built 550 vehicles to diagram F6, between 1906 and 1908 with a further batch of 400 in 1922/23. These vans were built to replace the Diagram C1 open fish truck. Primarily these vans were used to transport fish from Hull, Grimsby and the other major fishing ports on the North East coast to the markets primarily in the major conurbations such as London, Manchester, Birmingham as well as the more obvious towns and cities serviced directly by the NER, such as Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield. They were a significant part of the east cost fish traffic fleet, until the LNER introduced their own pattern of fish van in the mid 1930's. Thereafter these vehicles would be progressively withdrawn. Even with the introduction of the LNER vehicles 485 of this F6's were still on the LNER's books in 1938. However there was a steep attrition during the early 1940's leaving 374 in 1944. British Railways acquired more than 230 vehicles in 1946, however by 1948 the numbers had dropped to just 122. It is doubtful that any of these vehicles would have survived much beyond that period, especially after British Railways introduced the 'Blue Spot' pattern fish van in the early 1950's.

The vans were fitted with 'Westinghouse' and vacuum brake systems and steam pipes for through working on passenger trains. The 'Westinghouse' equipment was removed in the 1930's by the LNER.

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Made from white metal our model has separate sides including solebars, ends, axleguards with a Plasticard floor and pre-formed plastic roof. The model includes white metal buffers, clasp brake shoes and brake levers. A fully detailed instruction sheet is included giving lettering and painting information. To download the current Assembly Instructions Current Version 3.01 released October 2007 (199kb Adobe Acrobat 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 Eastern wagon liveries for suggested product numbers.
• Three link couplings of your choice
• Transfers - we recommend HMRS see North Eastern wagon liveries for suggested product numbers.

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

Information on North Eastern Railway components may be found here.

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