EXCLUSIVE PXA & JXA Wagons

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We are very pleased to be working with Cavalex Models in bringing two brand new OO Gauge wagon models to market. The PXA steel carrier and JXA bogie scrap wagons will nicely fill a long overdue gap in the market as well as complement existing models offered by other manufacturers.

After the highly regarded BBA steel wagons, it is great to look at another prototype wagon which is highly detailed, and in the case of the PXA, incorporating an authentic recreation of the structure flex hood.

During shows over the past few years and by direct contact, Cavalex Models have received many requests and suggestions for these particular wagons, so should prove popular with modellers.

A wide mixture of PXA steel carrier and JXA bogie scrap wagons to be produced, currently estimated to be released Q2 2024.
16 versions to be released in single, twin or triple packs. Models all to be available in pristine or weathered finish. With some sample images available to view below.


EXCLUSIVE TO RAILS OF SHEFFIELD

Pricing as follows:
Single Pack - £49.95 (weathered £59.95)
Twin Pack - £99.95 (weathered £119.95)
Triple Pack - £149.95 (weathered £179.95)

Specification:
• A wealth of separately fitted parts
• Fully detailed underframe
• Authentic tarpaulin
• Pivoted split chassis
• Prototypical fully detailed replica bogie
• Era specific printing and livery elements
• Designed for easy conversion to EM and P4
• Zinc alloy chassis
• Sprung buffers
• Sprung kinematic NEM couplings


PXA STEEL COIL CARRIER

In 1986 Powell Duffryn started building a fleet of fifty-four (54), 101 tonne Gross Laiden Weight, Steel Coil Carrying wagons. These wagons consisted of a solid frame with a ribbed moveable tarpaulin cover to protect the product inside. The Floor of the wagon could house coils loaded eye to the sky or eye to the end depending on where the train was loaded and the destination for discharge. The 54 wagons gained the carkind code on British Rail’s Total Operations Processing Systerm or TOPS, as PXA with design codes of PX044A and PX044B. Powell Duffryn hired the wagons to British Steel to bolster its existing fleet of hired in wagons that the company had on long-term hire from VTG.

JXA BOGIE SCRAP WAGON

In 1972 a new steel works was opened at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent. The new site at Sheerness was built to produce steel to be made from scrap metal using the Electric Arc Furnace method instead of the more conventional smelting of iron ore in the Basic oxygen steelmaking process.

This was seen as an effective and efficient way to boost steel production by utilising scrap metal from the south east of England.

 

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