SR 5 Planks Wagon (D1375)

SR 5 plank Open Wagon - Bulleid WWII design (D1375) - OO unpainted plastic kit

Require glue, paint, transfers, couplings, wheels (Gibson 12mm & brass bearings) to complete.

D1375 wagons were built between 1940 and 1948. However, the model is of the wagons with thinner body sheeting (planks) than normal, and thinner floor planks. These were built during 1943 & 1944 amounting to 850 wagons.
Another 400 wagons went to the LNER as their D178. To save metal, the headstocks were cut off square and the corner plates were narrower (as on LNER 6 plank opens). Two later batches (about 1100 wagons) also had the thinner planks, but had the more usual angled headstocks. These could be modelled using plastic, and hiding the join under the buffer body.
Vacuum brakes were fitted later to many of these wagons, with a second set of brake blocks. A number were used for ball clay traffic to Stoke-on-Trent. 
With "one-piece" underframe. Includes etched tie bars, optional "Oleo" buffer bodies and vacuum brake cylinder. The top edge of the sides & ends are as near scale thickness as possible – about 0·5mm: the real planks were 1/2".

Alan Gibson Wheels compatible : 12mm 3-hole