CC3004 Cooper-Craft 16mm LNWR Coal Wagon

Following the opening of the LNWR standard gauge branch from Betws-y-Coed to Blaenau Ffestiniog on 1st April 1881 an exchange yard was built to the north of the station to make connection with the Oakley and other quarries in the vicinity. To work the traffic from these quarries over the 2ft gauge metals Euston built special 2ft gauge wagons at their Earlstown works. The slate wagons were very similar to the Ffestiniog Railway and indeed GWR types, but the LNWR did build a very attractive design of end door coal wagon which is the subject of this kit. Not only is the wagon suitable for a model of he Ffestiniog district slate railways but its pleasing proportions and similarity to wagons used on underground mine railways and clay workings give the model great potential for the freelance railway.