rGAUGE ‘TT:120’ rMODEL Hornby • TT6025 IFA container wagon (DFDS) • TT6026 IFA container wagon (Hapag Lloyd) • TT6027 IFA container wagon (Hanjin) rPRICE £52.99 each rAVAILABILITY Selected Hornby stockists Web www.hornby.com
With Hornby’s ‘TT:120’ Class 66s moving ever closer, it’s exciting to see the appearance of these new container wagons, which will be the perfect load for a ‘Shed’. Cannily, the wagons are also produced under Hornby’s Arnold brand for the Continental ‘TT’ market, as the prototype wagons have worked within mainland Europe and the UK over their lifetime.
Based on a fleet of wagons built during the 1980s, by Arbel Fauvet Rail in France, the individual IFA wagons were designed to operate on Europe’s various train ferry services, with the addition of tie-down cleats at each end. Upon the completion of the Channel Tunnel, the wagons were also cleared to operate via this route, with markings added to the side panels to denote this. A low chassis frame allows the carriage of ‘High Cube’ shipping containers, and each wagon can carry either 20ft (x2), 30ft, 40ft or 45ft ‘boxes’.