16 May 2025
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The Dapol production team recently received production samples of the O Gauge MHA "Coalfish" wagons, which have been reviewed and approved by the team.
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.
The O gauge model features a die-cast compensated chassis and underframe, profiled wheels, sprung metal buffers and working instanter couplings.
Liveries
- 7F-082-001MHA Wagon EWS 394102
- 7F-082-002MHA Wagon EWS 394133
- 7F-082-003MHA Wagon EWS 394200
- 7F-082-004MHA Wagon EWS 394207
Priced at £60 each and available to order now, the models have now been shipped and are expected in shops in the coming weeks.
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