Festiniog Railway 2t Steel Sided Slate Wagon Kit

Our kit which is available singly or in packs of 5 can be assembled into either the braked or non-braked versions. The kit contains a plastic body and floor, curved spoke metal wheels and a choice of couplings. Chair link couplings are provided as is the standard OO9 type of coupling which has been designed to accept the wire loop from a Bemo OO9 coupling (not supplied) The principal freight traffic on the Festinog Railway was the carriage of finished slate from the quarries of Bleanau Festiniog to the port of Porthmadog. Specially designed slate wagons were provided for this traffic. The most common was the 2-ton steal sided wagon of which there were approximately 117 braked wagons and 522 non-braked wagons.