Oxford Rail have let us know that their latest batch of Pilchard Bogie Ballast Wagons in OO Gauge are set to arrive soon, during December 2025!
The second run of these extremely popular wagons are due to arrive in stock imminently and are available in a huge range of new livery variations never produced before. This includes all sorts of pristine, weathered and even repaired & condemned variations - offering you all sorts of opportunities for realistic modelling on your layout - you could complete an engineering rake or you could pose a single wagon as an abandoned vehicle in a disused siding. The possibilities are endless.
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Product Features
Highly detailed model with separately fitted parts including handrails and handbrake wheels
Metal wheels and axles
Accurate decoration including weathered, damaged and 'condemned' variations
NEM tension lock couplings
Optional instanter couplings included
Prototype Information
The smallest of the three LNER bogie drop-side ballast wagon designs but the only one not built before nationalisation. BR diagram 1/571 was built from May 1950 to May 1951 by Butterly Engineering under lot 2121. Only 50 were ever built with numbers ranging from DB990050 to DB990099.
Allocated to the Eastern region these wagons remained in the region and rarely strayed far, serving in permanent way trains and stone workings. They were later given the TOPS code YCO and continued to be used up until the 1980s as unfitted stock fell out of use.