73-026A Dinorwic Slate Wagon without sides Red Class_Class 43 HST and 5330 by the LNER

and 5330 by the LNER under their two numbering schemes

All detail parts installed

one hopper bay is removed from the HTA before the two ends are welded back together

The curiously-named “Bug Boxes” 4-wheel coaches were the first passenger-carrying coaches built for the Ffestiniog Railway

73-026A Dinorwic Slate Wagon without sides Red Class_Class 43 HST and 5330 by the LNERThe humble slate wagon was an obvious choice to accompany the Quarry Hunslet locomotives as part of Bachmann Narrow Gauges NG7 launch range, however weve gone a step further and modelled not only the basket wagons used to transport finished slates, but the flat beds and coal wagons too. Based on those wagons used at Dinorwic Quarry in North Wales, once the second largest slate quarry in the world, these wagons worked on a vast narrow gauge railway