Genesis 6w - LMS Lined Crimson Lake/Royal Mail - Twin Pack G

Genesis 6w - LMS Lined Crimson Lake/Royal Mail - Twin Pack GOur final offering for this run relates to the use of six wheeled vans as mail bag, parcel tender, and stowage vans in LMS Travelling Post Office trains of the 1930s. In much the same way that a steam locomotive employs a tender to carry coal and water, a mail and parcels train may require a tender to carry unsorted mail bags and parcels. These items were often picked up en route, particularly when TPO trains were marshalled at a central location from

and have also been used occasionally on the dredged sand flow from Pengam to a similar range of destinations

Rather than restoring them as two-car sets

with white cross - Triple Pack

They are used for carrying spent fuel from nuclear power stations and sites undergoing decommissioning to the facility at Sellafield for reprocessing or storage

66789 sports a homage to the British Rail large logo blue livery to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the formation of British Railways back in 1948

as present at Stargate Colliery in February 1950

2b SO (ex-FK) 4109 Orange Roof

ACC2970 BSc South Wales grey - Pack 3

including Aberdeen

were painted in Crimson Lake

battery box and full-formed compressor detail with extensive pipework and other separate parts

Correct livery details for the era and wagon modelled