Fruit Mex Van Brewdog Fruit Burst Weathered

Fruit Mex Van Brewdog Fruit Burst Weathered

Model

1:76 Scale model produced by Dapol. This model is ready-to-run and will make a great addition to any model railway collection.

Model Features

• 1:76 Scale Model
• Finely moulded body and applied livery
• Profiled wheels
• Weathered Paint Finish
• This model is best suited to 381mm radius curves
• This model is fitted with NEM style couplings

Details

Due to changes in legislature, the transport of cattle and other livestock traditionally performed by rail was changed in a very short space of time to road. This resulted in large numbers of redundant cattle wagons. Many of these wagons were converted for alternative uses and one such was the Fruit Mex which was produced by adding slatted panels to the top section of the body of a standard GWR Mex B 8 ton cattle wagon.

In this form it was ideally suited to cope with the considerable amounts of fresh fruit traffic, particularly strawberries from the West Country and Vale of Evesham. These wagons carried the simple appellation ‘Fruit’ to identify them, and an identical build was also used to carry ale casks.