More model wagons raise funds for locomotive restoration projects
NEW limited-edition OO-scale model wagons are to help raise funds for the restoration of a Merchant Navy Pacific and the overhaul of an Austerity 0-6-0ST.
As part of the ongoing collaboration between the General Steam Navigation Locomotive Restoration Society (which is restoring ex-Barry Bulleid No. 35011) and the Medway Queen Preservation Society (restoring the former General Steam Navigation Company paddle steamer of that name), two seven-plank wagons have been commissioned from Dapol.
Latest in a series of OO and N scale wagons produced to raise funds for the two groups, they are available in black or green, lettered ‘General Steam Navigation, Blunsdon & Gillingham Pier (referring to the respective locations of the societies).
Complete with a coal load, they are available at £12.90 each from https://35011gsn.co.uk/online-shop. html – a small number of the earlier N gauge gunpowder wagons are also still in stock, at £11.90 each.
Meanwhile, the Bagnall Locomotive Group is offering more wagons inspired by the classic railway film Oh! Mr Porter, to raise funds for its Bagnall Austerity 0-6-0ST The Duke.
The locomotive, No. 2746 of 1944, is nearing the end of an extensive overhaul at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, with the boiler now back in the frames following repairs at Locomotive Maintenance Services of Loughborough.
The wagons, the latest in a series produced by the group, are fiveplank examples lettered ‘Buggleskelly
Quarries Ltd’ and ‘Buggleskelly Gas, Light & General Trading Co. Ltd.’ Both are also lettered to be returned empty to ‘Buggleskelly S.R.N.I.’, referring to the fictional Southern Railway of Northern Ireland in the Will Hay comedy.
They can be ordered at £15 each, plus £4 postage for up to four wagons, with payment by cheque to: T.J. Oaks, 13 Trenchard Drive, Buxton SK17 9JY. To pay via Paypal, email sleepermonster@yahoo.co.uk