Accurascale JSA steel carriers
JSA WAGONS are covered steel carriers designed to carry delicate strip coil which could be damaged by the weather (until the post-2018 refurbishments). They were built using the underframes and bogies of redundant iron ore tippler wagons once operated by British Steel.
Accurascale has effectively done the same as British Steel and VTG by producing three different models of the JSA wagon models based on the underframe and bogies of its successful iron ore tippler models released last year.
The history of the JSA wagons commenced in 1996 when an initial batch of 56 redundant BSC iron tippler wagons from the Ravenscraig fleet were fitted with a longitudinal coil well protected with sliding covers of welded steel and equipped with conventional draw gear and buffers at both ends, allowing them to work with other conventional wagons.
The conversion undertaken by Marcroft Engineering in Stoke-on-Trent created the JSA, numbered BSSP4020-76 and subsequently BSSP4091-99.
The three steel sliding covers were of
