Description
Image courtesy of Paul Bartlett.
A bogie bolster is a type of flatbed wagon designed for carrying long loads. While the bogie bolster is a functional and literally descriptive term for any bogies flat wagon the bogie bolster is most commonly associated with the Great Western Railway.
The Bolster B or 'Macaw B' to give it its telegraphic code was first introduced in 1904 and would see production for over fifty years with few design changes. Fairly standard 5 foot 6 plate back bogies would be fitted by the GWR, giving the wagon a thirty-ton capacity.
GWR bogie bolsters would continue into service with BR before more updated wagons would see their uses diminish. Several examples have been preserved.
- What's Inside: 1x Rolling stock Wagon
- Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 18
- Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 2
- Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.5
- Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.08
- Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge
- Finish: Painted
- Colour: Grey
- Gauge: OO
- Operator: BR
- Designer: GWR
- Livery: BR
- Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2
- Number of Parts: 1
- Buffer Type: Sprung Metal Buffers
- Coupling Type: NEM Tension Lock