972005 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon LDEC No.682 option-set-084 survived to preservation

survived to preservation

The L&BR was opened at a relatively late date in terms of railway construction in Great Britain

All are wearing work gear and are very animated

this scale is also known as On30 in the USA because this results in a prototype gauge close to 30ins

and is complete with a customer entrance that can be built with stairs and a ramp

972005 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon LDEC No.682 option-set-084 survived to preservationDesigned to replace the ageing 8 ton and 9 ton timber framed wagons of the 1870s and 1880s, the Diagram 17s were a robust steel framed 5 plank wagon with a 9ft wheelbase, a set of doors on either side and an improved 10 ton load capacity. 12,050 examples were constructed between 1893 and 1903, accounting for 65% of the companys wagons built during this period, and by the time the last one rolled off the production line they constituted 45% of the