Back in the heyday of the steam railway, goods of all descriptions would have been carried
by rail across the country. Coal and other minerals would have been loaded into open wagons,
but other merchandise which needed protection from the elements would have travelled in
covered vans. Some of these wagons would have been owned by the railway companies, and would
have been painted in sober colours and lettered with the company's initials, but others
would have carried more distinctive colour schemes along with the name of the private company
which owned them. And all of these wagons and vans would have been coupled up together behind
one of the workhorse goods locomotives which were the backbone of the steam railway. The
refrigerator vans of the Hull and Barnsley would have carried perishable goods from Hull
Docks to customers across the north of England and the Midlands, and the next wagon in the
train could well have been a coal wagon from a nationwide company of factors such as
Thrutchley. Recreate the good old days of steam-hauled mixed goods trains on your layout
with our Northern Set 2.
Please note that these wagons are boxed individually.
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