Realism Redefined and Heljan unveil PCAs for 'O'

Joining its announcements this weekend at the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition, Heljan has revealed it is to release models of an all-new PCA powder tank wagon for O gauge. The new models are being produced exclusively for Realism Redefined, the retail arm of ‘Britain’s Biggest Model Railway’.

CAD work and livery artwork is reportedly complete and the manufacturer expects the first engineering prototype samples to arrive in the UK for review early-2023. Priced at £99 each, the wagons are expected to be popular with 'O' gauge modellers.

Featuring compensated axles, sprung buffers and Instanter couplings, fine pipework and underframe detail, separately fitted walkways, the model is based on the depressed centre PCA tanks used for cement and chemical traffic since the 1980s.

The first batch includes no fewer than 10 individually-numbered and decorated cement wagons, allowing customers to assemble realistic ready-to-run block trains. Also in development are similar wagons in Lever Brothers/Tiger Rail and Albright & Wilson liveries for powdered chemical traffic – ideal for 1980s/90s Speedlink trains.

Liveries proposed for its first batch are as follows:

• (1060) BCC Grey PCA 10800 ERA 8/9
• (1061) BCC Grey PCA 10894 ERA 8/9
• (1062) BCC Grey PCA 10747 ERA 8/9
• (1063) BCC Grey PCA 10739 ERA 8/9
• (1064) BCC Grey PCA 10777 ERA 9
• (1065) BCC Grey PCA 10770 ERA 8/9
• (1066) BCC Grey 10762 ERA 8/9
• (1067) BCC Grey PCA 10749 ERA 9
• (1068) BCC Grey PCA 10738 ERA 8/9
• (1069) BCC Grey PCA 10888 1078 Lever Bros/Tiger Rail Leasing PCA TRL10527 ERA 8
• (1090) Albright & Wilson/Tiger PCA TRL10530 ERA 8
• (1091) Albright & Wilson/Procor PCA PR9498 ERA 7/8

See the Realism Redefined website for further information and to place advance orders.

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