7F-082-001 MHA Wagon EWS 394102 lec Powerful 5 pole skew wound

Powerful 5 pole skew wound motor

however to allow it to act in conjunction with Class 89 and 91 electrically powered locomotives on the electrified East Coast Line

4S-024-WGDG 00 gauge spares H L 040 Wheelset geared darker green-R

Last of class withdrawn: 1966

7F-082-001 MHA Wagon EWS 394102 lec Powerful 5 pole skew woundAs the Merry go Round hopper coal wagons were reducing in numbers considerably, during 1997, surplus wagons donated their underframes to a fleet of ballast wagons for hire to the infrastructure maintenance companies. A total of 1,071 were so converted between 1997 to 2007, the later wagons having some detail differences to the number of vertical ribs on the bodies. Dapol has made models of examples from the original batch of 400 wagons built at RFS