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Hornby PDA bogie wagon?

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Looking on google images there doesn't seem to be any of a real life wagon. I have three of these. They are double V tank Blue Circle Cement wagons. Did this type actually exist on the UK rail network?
 
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truckman060473 said:
Looking on google images there doesn't seem to be any of a real life wagon. I have three of these. They are double V tank Blue Circle Cement wagons. Did this type actually exist on the UK rail network?
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Quick look through what has to be the god of railway rolling stocks new photo website reveals this from 1975

http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/bogiepresflo/h1be6609b#h1ffdbeed

So in answer to your question - Yep, they did used to exsist on our railway network - though although the mode itself is an ex Lima product, i wish that Hornby would package their models with a simular system to which Bachmann has - The Era rating system, because to anyone, the Hornby model could still run on the modern contemporary railway when really, they were replaced several years ago!

Anyway, should help you - Paul Barletts website is a very handy website for modelling wagons! :)
 
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