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Dapol offers the kings of coal

FIRST announced way back in November 2012, the first air-braked wagon to join Dapol’s ever-growing 7mm scale range has certainly been a long time coming. At the time, both the HAA power station and HEA domestic coal hoppers were unveiled together but in the event, it is the long-lived merry-go-round design that has arrived first. With the HAA now delivered, development work on the HEA has commenced in earnest.

The choice to release the HAA in the senior

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