2P-011-373 N Gauge Gresley BR Maroon Buffet E9120E O Gauge TTA Tank Wagon Opened in 1898

Opened in 1898

Containers and the special wooden decked conflat wagons used to convey them were produced in great numbers by all four of the railway companies

95 being built at Nine Elms Works with the remaining ten being built at Eastleigh Works

the design being preferred to six-coupled because of the many poorly laid out goods yards and the sharply curved Cattewater and Sutton Harbour lines at Plymouth

panels This wagon was well suited to the carriage of the considerable amounts of fresh fruit

2P-011-373 N Gauge Gresley BR Maroon Buffet E9120E O Gauge TTA Tank Wagon Opened in 1898Sir Nigel Gresley (1876 1941) was one of the most prominent designers of the steam era of British Railways. Although his locomotive designs are his best known works, Gresley also spent many years as a designer of coaches and carriages for the Great Northern Railway, which later merged to form the LNER. Gresley coaches were stylish and modern and set the standards for British transportation at the time. Dapol Models several Gresley coach styles and