73-028 Dinorwic Slate Wagon with sides Red (With Load) Lighting finished in Late BR Bauxite

finished in Late BR Bauxite livery with ‘VAN’ lettering

you would no doubt class these as the most important vehicles on the battlefield

they are sometime set just on their own in rural areas

carried on the tradition of animal names by being called ‘Loriot’

A typical South Eastern Railway style Platform Shelter intended to provide refuge from the weather while waiting for the train

73-028 Dinorwic Slate Wagon with sides Red (With Load) Lighting finished in Late BR BauxiteThe humble slate wagon was an obvious choice to accompany the Quarry Hunslet locomotives as part of Bachmann Narrow Gauges NG7 launch range, and it is the wagons built for use at Dinorwic Quarry that form the subject for these new models. The Dinorwic Quarry was once the worlds second largest slate quarry and vast narrow gauge railway networks were employed to move materials around the site and then on to transhipment points. Whilst flat bed wagons