North Eastern Railway, LNER & British Railways

Photograph of cattle wagon built by Stephen Banks
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Pricing and availability

Cattle traffic was a mainstay of small railway goods yard revenue prior to the Great War. Each railway had their own ideas of the ideal cattle wagon. This created many variations, although most centred around a conventional 9' wheel base wagon of around 10 tons capacity. The North Eastern had a substantial fleet of medium wagons, the Diagram K1. The basic design dates back to the late 1890's and examples were still being built after grouping in 1923. Cattle traffic gradually reduced in the face of strong competition from road transport after the Great War especially on short haul movements. This trend had become very significant by the 1930's resulting in lost revenue to the railways.

At grouping the the North Eastern transferred over 2000 vehicles of this pattern, by 1940 the number had dropped to 700, the majority of which were unfitted. The LNER preferred the long wheel base fitted pattern as opposed to the LNER's medium sized cattle wagon, the majority of which were unfitted. The early versions of the Diagram K1 were built with no6 grease axleboxes, with a single brake lever operating 2 brake shoes on one side only. From around 1902 new wagons were fitted with the Morton duplex brake and the 2a type of grease axle box. As wagons were refitted or repaired from 1910 onwards, the axleboxes would have been replaced with oil boxes.

Some versions were through fitted, with both Westinghouse and vacuum braking systems to allow for passenger working at the head of a passenger train. Predominantly these vehicles would be allocated to a specific station and would be returned empty to that station. Some wagons were vacuum fitted only or vacuum piped. In the thirties the LNER removed the Westinghouse brakes.

51L produces 3 versions of the NER Diagram K1, representing both early and later prototypes and a fully fitted version.

The early model features grease 2a axleboxes, with a choice of single brake lever or Morton Duplex brake levers. The later model features 1D oil axleboxes and Morton Cam levers. Lastly we supply a fully fitted version.

Items required to complete the model:-

• Wheels: 12mm diameter open spoke wheels.
• Paint - we recommend Precision Paint and Humbrol Acrylic.
• Couplings.
• Transfers - we recommend HMRS or Modelmaster, where applicable.

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Made from white metal our model has separate sides including solebars, ends, axleguards with an embossed Plasticard floor and pre-formed roof. The model includes white metal, buffers, brake shoes and levers. A fully detailed instruction sheet is included giving lettering and painting information. To download the current assembly instructions:-

• Unfitted, Grease Axleboxes: Version 1.00 released March/April 2001, 2 Sides A4 (50Kb Acrobat 3.01 file).
• Unfitted, Oil Axleboxes: Version 1.00 released March/April 2001, 2 Sides A4 (59Kb Acrobat 3.01 file).
• Fitted, Oil Axleboxes: Version 1.00 released March/April 2001, 2 Sides A4 (62Kb 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 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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North Eastern Railway Association
A Pictorial Record of LNER wagons, P Tatlow, P118
North Eastern Record, Volume 2, P92

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