DHAPR WAGON WORKS – ROLLING STOCK
Mar 24, 2022
4 minutes
Words & photography: Phil Parker
Most layout rolling stock requirements are pretty standard. A few rakes of coaches and a mix of goods wagons. Those wagons will be appropriate to the region, too – no iron ore hoppers running in the wilds of Cornwall and not many china clay wagons in Morayshire.
However, in a wagon repair yard, I can run anything. One of the joys of this prototype is that pretty much every type can come in for repair or renovation. Better still, they can arrive in small numbers, so I don’t need long trains of identical wagons.
Basically, it’s an opportunity to root through my cupboards (and Andy York’s as it happens), pulling out a mixture of old and new wagons,
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