Tyne Dock - Consett Hopper
Based on the above English railway car, I am pleased to bring you the 3rd train model in my series of custom kits. This kit is by nature more complex than
the previous kits, being a bogie waggon. With a piece count of 166 pieces, this is a neat looking kit. It does not look like a typical hopper car, especially in
comparison with the 21 Ton Hopper
waggons which were common throughout the life of the prototype (from 1953-1974)
The above is the refined kit, available for $50.Please contact me to order this or my other kits.
An end view, showing the simulated door opening linkage and air brake connection.
Two photographs of the doors in the open position. The door openings are not large enough for a 1x1 round brick.
However, Technic pins make a good load for this hopper. it taking over 200 1.5 Dk gray pins to fill the hopper compartment.
The underside of the hopper has a air brake reservor, and some frame details.
These hoppers are available from me, feel free to contact me:James Powell
For some more prototype information, Model Railway Journal #117 has the account of building a brass/whitemetal kit of one of these hoppers in 4mm scale.
The magazine article inspired me to try to model this unusual prototype. 30 of these waggons were built, being hauled by a 9F (a 2-10-0 freight loco) up grades of
anything up to 1 in 35 (about 3.5%). 2 engines were used, as one could imagine with 800 tons of train it being rather a struggle to get the cars from the port to the mill, which was about 1000 ft
above the port, and 23 miles away. For further information, I refer you to the fine article in MRJ. These kits are being produced on limited production basis, with the first run being of 10 kits.
Contact me using the above Email address to order.
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