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Powerline PC-420D HO 10 AS VR Blue & Gold S Type Carriage First Sans Serif

In-order to allow running at 125 mph on Britain's Victorian era railways, new rolling stock was needed by British Railways. Significant improvements over the Mk2 included new secondary air suspension between the bogies and the coach body as well as aerodynamic skirting on the underframe.

Mk3 coaches are 75ft (23m) long enabling far greater capacity than older coaches. Mk3 coaches also incorporate disk breaks and wheel slip protection enabling faster deceleration. The first Mk3 coaches to be delivered were used as part of the HST prototype along with the two Class 41 diesel power cars in 1972.

Mk3 coaches entered service in 1975 along with the Class 43 forming the iconic InterCity 125 trainset. After the HST Mk3 coach variant was introduced, further Mk3 coaches were introduced to the West Coast Mainline for use as part of locomotive hauled trains. Whilst Mk3 stock is standard for HST units, the standard locomotive hauled stock is Mk3a.

Mk3a stock differs from Mk3 stock due to the inclusion of buffers as well as a different electrical system that uses motor generator units in each coach to power air conditioning and other ancillaries Mk3a stock was built until 1984, before 3B stock with improved seating and lighting was built from 1985 to 1988.

The Mk3 coach is perhaps most iconic in its original production livery of the BR Grey and Blue. It is in this livery that the coach, as well as the matching Class 43 units would be introduced, before high speed rail services in the UK would be rebranded into the Intercity Executive livery.

Following the privatisation of the Railway network, Mk3 coaches would find themselves in many colourful liveries, some harking back to the original blue and grey livery of times gone by.

These Mk3 coaches include the provision for lighting provided by the R7305 Maglight lighting unit, as well as fully detailed interiors and metal wheels throughout. For the first time, these coaches also include our new Buckeye style magnetic couplings.

Specifications

• Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 30.3
• Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 5.5
• Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.5
• Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.158
• Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge
• Finish: Painted
• Colour: Blue and Grey
• Gauge: OO
• Operator: BR
• Designer: BREL
• Livery: BR Blue and Grey
• Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2
• Number of Parts: 1
• Coupling Type: NEM Tension Lock

A British Rail 6 Wheel Coach converted and used as a power source, a Generator Coach is an innovative and curious device serving in a capacity far different from the typical expectation of a coach simply to carry. While British Rail's standardised coaches with their simple and direct marks have dominated the InterCity lines for decades, many different services are provided including the typical purposes of coaches and railway transport.

In lines where a pantograph was not freely available to power electric trains, a power outage appears unexpectedly or even a hotel or other building required electricity; the Generator Coach was an emergency tool at hand.

Specifications

• Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 16
• Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 5
• Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.5
• Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.07
• Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge
• Finish: Painted
• Colour: Grey
• Operator: InterCity
• Designer: BR
• Livery: InterCity
• Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2
• Number of Parts: 1

A container specially designed for transporting liquids and powders, which has been used since the days of Japanese National Railways.

Features

• A set of two types with different color coding, blue and white two-tone
• Can be easily installed on various container cars such as Koki 50000 and Koki 104

Most rolling stock constructed by or for the Victorian Railways during the 19th century involved significant amounts of wood. Whilst the use of wood allowed savings in initial cost, this was offset by higher maintenance costs in the longer term. Accordingly U 278, the first example of a 10'6” wheelbase louvre van with steel body and underframe, was constructed at Newport Workshops in 1897. Despite the higher build cost of this form of construction, as compared to the earlier series of vans with wooden bodies, it was considered that the projected longer life and reduced maintenance costs justified the construction of further vans to this design. Consequently, a batch of 180 vans, numbered U 281 to U 460, was constructed to the same design between 1898 and 1900. These vans had the handbrake on the opposite side of the van to the brake cylinder and the brake weigh shaft mounted in a plummer block directly below the bottom flange of the side sill. A second batch of 100 vans, numbered U 461 to U 560, was constructed at Newport Workshops in 1906. This second batch of vans had the handbrake installed on the same side of the van as the brake cylinder and the brake weigh shaft was mounted in shallow vee brackets 8 ¼” below the bottom of the side sills. Some vans were constructed with a trap door in the top Louvre at one end and further vans, but not all, were retrofitted with this door.

This kit is representative of a van as running between about 1955, when buffers were removed, and 1978 when the last examples were withdrawn. A number were reclassified as HD, operating in departmental service as tool vans

Features

• Available in a range of Victorian Railways prototypes of wagons and carriages, in HO scale only.

• R series kits are injection moulded from polystyrene and RE series kits are etched brass with lost wax brass castings. All kits include instructions, decals and wheels/bogies as appropriate.

• Kits do NOT include paints, couplers and in many cases etched detail parts, which are all available separately.

• Wheels to NMRA RP25 code 99 profile and HO gauge, from the standard SEM range of wheelsets, are included.

• Bogie vehicles are supplied with appropriate bogies and wheels from the standard SEM range.

Hornby United Molasses, 20T Tank wagon, No. 89 - Era 3/4.

Includes

• 1x Tank Wagon

QMX 63' CONTAINER WAGON

These containers wagons were a continuation of the basic design of the earlier VR FQX 63’ wagon, the exception being, they were built with a skeletal deck.

60 wagons were built in 1978, 1 – 40 at the VR Bendigo Workshops and 41 – 60 at the VR Newport Workshops. These were the last VR wagons to enter service prior to the adoption of the ROA 4 letter coding in 1979.

They were suitable for bogie exchange and later all went into the NRC pool in 1995, the majority were fitted with 2CM high speed bogies and became RQFY coded wagons.

Model Features:

• Highly detailed Ready-to-Run HO scale model
• Injection moulded high quality plastic body
• Diecast metal underfloor centre beam
• Full brake rigging and underfloor detail
• Semi scale 10.5mm diameter metal rimmed wheels
• Genuine Kadee scale head whisker coupler
• 18” Minimum radius recommended

Photos shown are representative of the finished model. Numbers and colours may vary on final product.

The So80 series is a special vehicle that rushes to the scene of derailment or overturning accidents and helps with accident recovery. It is called a "large-scale heavy vehicle" and is equipped with a rotating cab and crane driven by a diesel engine. The product is based on the mid-model manufactured from 1963, and the cab, arms, and outriggers (stabilizing legs) are movable. In addition, a Chiki 7000 series loaded with lifting parts is included.

Features

• Does not move on its own
• Both booms and turrets can be manually raised, lowered and rotated
• Wires are also represented
• Control area name is printed
• Includes one Chiki 7000 car for mounting the boom 

Contents

Vehicle

• So80
• Chiki7000

Accessories

• Decals