Hornby R60351 OO RailRoad BR 20T Brake Van

Brake vans were an essential fixture on freight trains where the continuous brake was not available. Loose-coupled wagons only had hand-operated ‘sprag’ brakes which had to be applied individually, for example, before descending a gradient.

Trains were prone to broken coupling chains, so the brake van was essential for bringing a train to a halt under such circumstances. From 1968, the requirement for a brake van to be coupled to a fitted train (wagons with vacuum brakes) was removed from the rule book. BR adopted the LNER ‘Toad D’ van as the basis for its own standard brake van design.

This OO gauge model van is an example of a BR 20T Brake Van.

Specification

• Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 11
• Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 5.5
• Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.5
• Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge
• Gauge: OO
• Operator: British Railways
• Livery: Grey/Yellow
• Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 1
• Buffer Type: Moulded Plastic Buffers
• Coupling Type: Wide Tension Lock