973006 GER Dia.48 7-Plank Open Wagon NE (post-36) No.607029 option-set-187 increasing the water capacity from

increasing the water capacity from 5

With N Scale modelling becoming more popular by the year

The last was withdrawn in 1940 but the LMS saved pioneer No

Constructed to carry roads over creeks and rivers

973006 GER Dia.48 7-Plank Open Wagon NE (post-36) No.607029 option-set-187 increasing the water capacity fromIn early 1903 while wagons of the final order of Diagram 17 were under construction, the GER was busy preparing a new 7 plank design with both an increased carrying capacity and an improved load retention for low weight but high volume goods. Within two months a prototype of the new 7 plank design had been completed by converting an existing 5 plank Diagram 17 wagon originally built in 1898. Trials of the wagon were successful, although the oil axle