Hornby EWS OTA Timber Carrier
A completely new wagon, carried over from last year, is an OTA timber carrier. They
actual wagons were built to transport timber, cut in the Scottish Highlands, and transport
it to paper mills. Many ran in the livery of the paper company hiring the wagon, while
others were in Railfreight red livery. By 1994, 165 of them were transferred to Transrail
and thence to EWS. When built in the 1980s, most made use of the chassis of redundant
air-braked open wagons (OCA) and, later on, the chassis of VDA vans. Various batches were
built and a variety of designs may be found, particularly regarding the number and
arrangement of the stanchions. Hornby have modelled two types.
Six versions of the model are initially planned by Hornby and these are based on converted OCA open wagons and retain the original end walls but extended upwards. The type modelled has the upper corners of these walls angled. The OTAs planned by Bachmann will be ones converted from VDA vans. The first three released by Hornby are in EWS maroon livery, with bright red stanchions, and their numbers are 110292 (R6466), 110209 (R6467) and 110211 (R6468).