R60203 YMO 'Salmon' Bogie BR Wagon scale-model-scenery A Graham Farish Train Set

A Graham Farish Train Set is the perfect entry into the wonderful world of model railways

for covered vans most of the new designs centred around a 10ft wheelbase chassis with a metal and wood body on top

The 4 wheel hopper wagons provided an increased payload over the types they replaced and were operated by Associated British Maltsters Ltd

both eminent engineers associated with the original Great Western Railway

along with turned metal buffers

R60203 YMO 'Salmon' Bogie BR Wagon scale-model-scenery A Graham Farish Train SetThe LMS, beImage courtesy of Paul Bartletting the largest of the Big Four railway companies, was behind a great number of freight wagons, including some of the first large bogie flat wagons. British Rail, when they took charge of the UK national rail network chose an aquatic theme for their freight wagons, and as such the LMS bogie flat design would come to be called the Salmon. Salmon wagons were designed to carry lengths of rail and later, track