Revolution Trains have advised us that multiple new OO Gauge wagon ranges are due to arrive with us in March 2025!
Get ready to bring the newly tooled IHA Steel Carriers and KSA 'Rover Cube' Wagons home to your layout. These beautifully detailed models cater for these fascinating prototypes that have never been produced before in model form - allowing you to recreate realistic steel carrier trains, engineers workings, car parts transportation or timber trains!
OO Gauge IHA WAGONS - DUE MARCH 2025
OO Gauge KSA 'Cube' Wagons - Due March 2025
IHA Wagon Product Features
Highly detailed model of the IHA bogie steel carriers with separately fitted parts
Photo-etched platforms at one end
NEM coupler pockets in kinematic mounts
Designed for easy conversion to EM or P4 with axles set at 26mm. The brake blocks on the modelwill be supplied correct for its OO wheels, but additional mounting holes have been incorporatedfor EM/P4
Fine wheelsets to NMRA RP25 standards
Designed for Peco radius 2 curves
KSA Wagon Product Features
Highly detailed model of the KSA Cube Wagons with separately fitted parts
Designed with 26mm axles to allow simple conversion to P4/EM standards
NEM coupler pockets in kinematic mounts
Soft sprung buffers
Designed for Peco radius 2 curves
IHA Wagon Prototype Information
250 IHA steel carriers were built to transport high-grade steel on a variety of flows. These include domestic steel from South Wales to destinations in the midlands, north and south-east of England and via the Channel tunnel to customers in France, Belgium and Holland.
The IHAs are also used to feed imported steelfrom ports on the east coast and Thames estuary to steel terminals inland. The first batch of 48 wagonswere built by Fauvet Girel in 1991 with further batches built in 1993 and 1998.
There are very minor variations between batches and these are accounted for in the Revolution tooling.
Now owned by wagon leasing company Ermewa, the wagons have red bogies, underframes and ends and grey canvas covers. Some have yellow dots painted in the covers signifying they are reserved for domestic traffic only. As the canvas covers come due for renewal, wagon owners Ermewa began adding its branding more prominently.
KSA Wagon Prototype Information
100 of these large vans were built for Rover Cars by Rautaruukki of Finland in 1995 to convey preformed car parts and completed sub-assemblies securely between plants. Coded KSA-A under TOPS, and nicknamed 'Cube' or 'Talgo' wagons , they incorporated full-length sliding covers as well as floors that could be raised and lowered to simplify unloading while optimising use of the restrictive British loading gauge. They travelled to Britain from Finland via the Channel Tunnel and were used between Swindon, Longbridge and other Rover plants. At first they were hauled by pairs of RfD Class 47s; after privatisation EWS class 66s, and occasionally 56s and 60s, were used.
In 2001 WH Malcolm acquired several KSAs for secure transportation of Anglo-Scottish freight on the WCML and two were repainted into Malcolm's Logistics livery. Traction for these trains was provided by DRS (Class 66 or pairs of Class 37s) and the KSA wagons were marshalled together, often immediately behind the locomotive. The rest of the train usually comprised Megafret container wagons.
In 2012 several redundant KSA wagons were acquired by the wagon leasing company NACCO and converted to timber carriers. The work involved removal of the sliding covers and the hydraulic floor mechanism, installation of 14 pairs of heavy duty stanchions and the removal of some end panels, and replacement with bars designed to stop logs sliding through. The timber wagons are used with other van conversions including the IWA timber carrier wagons previously offered by Revolution Trains. They are used on trains to and from Chirk, most recently on a newly trialled traffic from Aberystwyth.