Description
The design of our 23rd Special Commission wagon is based on those which ran on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway between Haughley and Laxfield as well as elsewhere in East Anglia. A production run of 151 models have been produced by Dapol Ltd for the MSLR and we guarantee no further models of this wagon with this running number will be produced for us.
The livery is based on that of a 4-plank coal wagon owned by William H. Booth, coal factors and merchants of Ipswich. Formally Booth & Mitchell until 1907 the company was dissolved in April of that year leaving Booth to trade under the name of William H. Booth & Co. The company had premises in Princes Street Ipswich and a coal depot in Ipswich Lower Yard supplying stations in the area up until the late 1920’s. The model is numbered 704 in the Booth fleet and is in a similar livery to the previous Booth wagon number 701 produced for us in 2008.
Although the livery is based on an authentic wagon, the use of mass produced standard wagons mean that model is a compromise between true authenticity and the need to keep costs down. The wagons feature the NEM coupling pockets and are supplied with a removeable coal load. Each wagon is supplied with a numbered limited-edition certificate. Wagons are available in pristine or weathered condition and prices are the same for either version.
