DAPOL VEV / VEA ‘VANWIDE’
Feb 24, 2022
4 minutes
Words: Howard Smith
photography: Tony Wright
This year, a flurry of newly-tooled O gauge RTR rolling stock is expected to arrive from Dapol. First for 2022, and arriving with customers and stockists, are models of its ‘Vanwide’ ventilated vans.
Kindly received from the manufacturer for review are two samples of the 10ft wheelbase wagons, both in freight brown livery. Dapol has tooled for the original vacuum-braked wagons, and later air-braked variants, observing underframe and running gear detail changes – both sport sprung Oleo hydraulic buffers.
Five variants are available of its air braked VEAs – two in freight brown, two in Railfreight
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