Bachmann 30T LMS Bogie Bolster Wagon 33-857A
Bogie bolster wagons were used for carrying long loads, such as girders, rails and complete sections of track. Their open bed made for easy loading and unloading and the load was held in place by vertical steel pins pushed into wooden or steel bolsters set across the floor of the wagon, at intervals along its length. For wider loads, pins could be set into pockets at intervals along the sides of the wagon.
The LMS adopted a Midland Railway design for their 30 ton bogie bolster wagons and between 1926 and 1934, built 327 of them. The number on this LMS model belong to a wagon built in 1928 or 1929. The model is grey and numbered 301326. The model had been added to the Mainline range in 1980 and became a Bachmann model in 1991 - since when more than 20 versions have been produced.