CIE Bulleid Pallet Van - Brown (CIE roundel era) - Pack 3

CIE Bulleid Pallet Van - Brown (CIE roundel era) - Pack 3As palletised shipments became increasingly common, CI required wagons capable of handling this new type of freight. While bogie wagons suitable for sundries, bagged cement, and other traffic were already on the drawing board, an interim solution was needed. The result was the 12 ton Pallet Van, based on the standard triangulated wagon chassis. This development of the traditional van wagon featured offset sliding doors wide enough for pallet loading

one of several 'missing link' sub classes that has never been produced in high quality form in 4mm scale

destination screens

Visually 66001 looked more striking owing to its red grilles which were later changed to black

Switchable Red and white marker lights with day/night options

Compensated Axle Boxes

Little use of body wrap advertising vinyls has been made

each one loaded with 5

leaving Boultham Works on 27 January 1949 for the Birchills Power Station in Walsall

7818 – ‘Granville Manor '

The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945

Freightliner were the second operating company to enter the class 66 game with the first of their locomotives arriving in 1999

FCA 610232 DB + Suez-Sita x3 (A-126