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<p>The 30D container is a 20-foot-class covered container owned by JR Freight, manufactured in 2006, with three-way openings on both sides and the end panel. In recent years, it has been given a new paint job that only bears the JR mark.</p> <h3>Features</h3> <ul> <li>JRF mark and Ecorail mark are printed</li> <li>Two types of numbers are printed</li> </ul>

<p>Steel ballast hopper wagons weighing 25 tons were specially constructed for the LNER Engineer’s Department to transport the ballast. At the bottom of the wagon, three hopper doors were operated by the wheels at the platform end. As the train was being pulled forward, the outer doors would open and discharge in the ‘six foot’ on both sides of the track. The centre door would open into the ‘four foot’. The ballast plough brakes would then spread the ballast.</p> <p>This NE Scottish Area Hopper wagon model features box sections in the vertical ribs. The hook couplings enable easier coupling of other rolling stock and locomotives on your layout. Stanchions support the wagon. A handbrake wheel is also featured. A legend stating ‘Empty to Cowlairs’ reflects these wagons emptying their ballast load at Cowlairs. This model comes in an LNER NE Scottish Area livery.</p> <h4>Includes</h4> <ul> <li>1x Rolling Stock Wagon</li> </ul>

<p>The TTA tanker is one of the most numerous types of tanker wagon ever seen on British railways. While far from the first or last such wagon to be used the standardised nature and relative simplicity of the mechanisms in the tank and chassis led to thousands being built during the 1960s and 70s.</p> <p>Mainly for the use of petrochemical products the TTA tanker would see use in heavy block trains around the country, hauled by some of the most notable diesel freight engines to have served with BR. Withdrawal for the wagons would begin in the early 2000s when larger bogie tank engines would take over their role, with most examples of the wagon scrapped other than a handful preserved for posterity.</p> <p>The Hornby TTA tanker is a newly tooled for 2023, the first time this has been retooled since 1973. With a phenomenal amount of detail on what can sometimes be seen as a rather plain wagon these are a must for any late twentieth century modeller.</p> <h3>Specification</h3> <ul> <li>Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 12</li> <li>Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 5</li> <li>Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.5</li> <li>Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.05</li> <li>Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge</li> <li>Finish: Painted</li> <li>Colour: Grey</li> <li>Gauge: OO</li> <li>Operator: BR</li> <li>Designer: Charles Roberts and Co</li> <li>Livery: Shell</li> <li>Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2</li> <li>Number of Parts: 1</li> <li>Buffer Type: Sprung Metal Buffers</li> <li>Coupling Type: NEM Tension Lock</li> </ul>

<h3>10000 Gallon Rail Tank Car Series</h3> <p>SDS Models is producing a range of 10 000 gallon rail tank cars based upon a standard VR design 38 foot welded underframe. These HO Gauge models are presented with four unique, oil company specific, tank designs and accurately portrait the prototypical differences between each companies versions to meet their intended requirements. The models cover all major brands used in Victoria with the exception of the Shell Oil Company whose fleet rode on 36 foot riveted underframes.</p> <h3>The models are available in triple-packs and are categorised into three groups:</h3> <ul> <li>OT - as delivered in the early 1950s to the early 1960s</li> TW / TWF - 1960s to the late 1970s <li>VTQA / VTQF / VTQY - 1980s and 1990s.</li> </ul> <h3>Model Features:</h3> <ul> <li>Highly detailed Ready-to-Run HO scale model</li> <li>Injection moulded high quality plastic body</li> <li>Etched metal walkways</li> <li>Full brake rigging and underfloor detail</li> <li>Semi scale metal rimmed wheels</li> <li>OT bogie, 5’11” wheelbase with 36" diameter wheels.</li> <li>Genuine Kadee #158 whisker coupler</li> <li>18” Minimum radius recommended</li> </ul> <p><em>Item photos of SDS-OT027 provided for reference. NOT ACTUAL PRODUCT PHOTOS.</em></p>

<p>This 6 Wheeled Coach is a representation of the hundreds which served on the GWR from the Victorian era onwards, proving especially good at branch line work where their small size enabled the traversing of tight radius curves, while lower passenger numbers meant their small size was more acceptable and enabled trains to be hauled by smaller engines.</p> <h4>Include</h4> <ul> <li>1x Rolling Stock Coach</li> </ul>

<p>At the start of the 1930s the LMS abandoned the ‘Small Engine Policy that it had inherited from one of its largest predecessors, the Midland Railway. The abandoning of this policy led to some of the most famous Stanier and LMS designs such as the Jubilee, Black 5 and Duchess classes. To accompany this shift in ethos, new coaches were constructed for the LMS, with the 57’ coaches being built between 1931 and 1932.</p><p>These new coaches were steel clad, the first such for the LMS and had seating for 56, 300 such examples were built. In LMS service these coaches were painted in their striking maroon livery with LMS insignia adorning the side. The coaches, being relatively new at the time of nationalisation lasted well into the swansong days of BR, appearing in both its carmine and cream livery and later BR Maroon when BR decided to shift aesthetics back to regional recognition.</p><h3>Specifications</h3><ul> <li>Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 14.4</li> <li>Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 3</li> <li>Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 2.2</li> <li>Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.04</li> <li>Item Scale: 1:120 Scale</li> <li>Finish: Painted</li> <li>Colour: Maroon</li> <li>Gauge: TT</li> <li>Operator: BR</li> <li>Designer: Sir William Stanier</li> <li>Livery: BR Maroon</li> <li>Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 3</li> <li>Number of Parts: 1</li> </ul>

<p>This BR, Mk2E First Open, E3237 - Era 8 coach, designed by British Railways, is 273mm in length and the painted finish of olive green and beige makes this coach perfect for an Era 8 towns or cottage setting.</p> <h3>Specification</h3> <ul> <li>Colour: BR Intercity Executive</li> <li>Finish: Painted</li> <li>Gauge: OO</li> <li>Livery: Executive</li> <li>Coupling: NEM / Tension lock</li> <li>Minimum radius curve: Radius 2</li> <li>Operator: BR</li> <li>Designer: BR</li> </ul>

<p>The wagons represented by this kit were constructed at various VR workshops in 1938 and 1939 as grain proof GZ wagons, numbered 1701-2000. By the mid 1950s the VR had constructed a large fleet of GY wagons and the GZ wagons, which had a smaller cubic capacity than the GY, were downgraded to general goods traffic and recoded IZ, retaining the same numbers and load rating of 16/27 Tons. During 1963/64 there was a spate of derailments that were traced to 'W' irons of 27 Ton capacity IZ and HZ wagons cracking where they were riveted to the underframe. The solution adopted was to replace the 'W' irons and reclassify the wagons RY, retaining the same numbers, but with a reduced load rating of 16/22 Tons. The handbrake rigging was also changed in the mid 1960s and it is most likely that this change was made concurrent with the change in code from IZ to RY as the wagons were passing through the workshops.</p> <p><em>Models illustrated have been fitted with couplers (not included).</em></p>