New Dapol MHA 'Coalfish' in O announced        

The EP sample is currently being evaluated by the Dapol design team. Artworks are being produced and Dapol will be sharing more details in due course. The wagons will be priced at £60 each and are available to pre-order now. 

Specifications

• Die-cast compensated chassis and underframe
• Die-cast and profiled wheels
• Sprung metal buffers
• Working instanter couplings coupling
• Finely applied livery   

Proposed Models

• 7F-082-001MHA Wagon EWS 394102 
• 7F-082-002MHA Wagon EWS 394133 
• 7F-082-003MHA Wagon EWS 394200 
• 7F-082-004MHA Wagon EWS 394207

About the prototype

As 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 is making models of the original batch of 400 wagons built at RFS Doncaster between 1997 and 1998 Coded MHA Coalfish.

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