Accurascale MDO/MDV
◆ GAUGE ‘OO’
◆ MODEL Accurascale BR 21t COAL21/MDO/MDV mineral wagons
◆ PRICE £74.94 per triple-pack
◆ AVAILABILITY Accurascale stockists
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When thinking about BR steam-era coal traffic, most of us will think of the ubiquitous 16t steel-bodied mineral wagon. However, the use of larger, 21t wagons was also significant. Popular especially in South Wales, where increased capacity was vital to cope with the prodigious output of the collieries, 20/21t mineral wagons had been in use from the 1920s
The GWR and various private owners were the main protagonists, and BR subsequently developed the concept in the 1950s, initially with a batch featuring riveted steel bodywork. A move to welded bodies soon followed, with 1,500 examples turned out to BR dia. 1/107 in 1950-51, from three different private contractors.