Runner packs of five wagons
SOLD in runner packs of five wagons, the Accurascale PTA, JTA and JUA models are essentially the same design of Dorman Long-built bogie box iron ore tipplers with different liveries applied to them. Designed for block train working, the BSC regional fleets were composed of a mix of ‘inner’ wagons with knuckle couplings, one of which was fitted to a rotary mechanism to allow wagons to be tipped without uncoupling from the train, and a smaller number of ‘outer’ wagons fitted with conventional draw gear and side buffers at one end.
All but the VTG-livery wagons are sold as two different box sets that allow the assembly of trains of 10 wagons with the correct ‘outer’ wagons available for the ends. One box set in each livery contains five inner wagons while the second has two outer wagons, one with a working tail lamp alongside three inner wagons. The outer wagons are also correctly orientated with regard to the outer draw gear to match rotary coupling orientation within a train. Additional ‘inner’ wagon packs can be used to expand the length of BSC, ARC and Foster Yeoman trains if desired.
Composed of three sub-assemblies, the first impression is of neatly finished models with accurate colours in a neat presentation box. However, as neat as the box happened to be, the models are made to run, and run they do, with free-rolling metal wheels in well-made BSC ‘Axle Motion’ bogies.
This story is from the January 2021 edition of Rail Express.
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