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‘OO’ Gauge Dorman Long Bogie Tipplers announced

BRITISH STEEL owned and operated a large fleet of bogie iron ore tippler wagons, TOPS coded PTA, constructed in three batches by Redpath Dorman Long in Middlesbrough in the early 1970s.

Comprising of a heavily ribbed body with air brakes and riding on BSC Axle Motion bogies, they were

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