Dapol have announced a newly tooled range of MHA 'Coalfish' open wagons in O Gauge!
Four variations are to be produced catering for these widely used ballast wagons in EWS maroon - with alternating running numbers.
Engineering samples are currently under review by the Dapol design team, with artworks expected to be shown shortly. The final models are due in stock during Q2 2025.
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Product Features
Die-cast compensated chassis and underframe
Die-cast and profiled wheels
Sprung metal buffers
Working instanter couplings coupling
Finely applied livery
Prototype Information
As the Merry-go-Round hopper coal wagons were reducing in numbers considerably, during 1997, surplus wagons donated their underframes to a fleet of ballast wagons for hire to the infrastructure maintenance companies.A total of 1,071 were so converted between 1997 to 2007, the later wagons having some detail differences to the number of vertical ribs on the bodies. Dapol are making models of the original batch of 400 wagons built at RFS Doncaster between 1997 and 1998 Coded MHA Coalfish.