972013 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon NE Loco No.O197 Gift Cards 21-pin DCC Decoder socket fitted

21-pin DCC Decoder socket fitted

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keeping it out of service for three years

it was intended that the push-pull operation would benefit Royal Mail’s planned Railnet Hub terminal at Willesden which opened in 1996

972013 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon NE Loco No.O197 Gift Cards 21-pin DCC Decoder socket fittedDesigned to replace the ageing 8 ton and 9 ton timber framed wagons of the 1870s and 1880s, the Diagram 17s were a robust steel framed 5 plank wagon with a 9ft wheelbase, a set of doors on either side and an improved 10 ton load capacity. 12,050 examples were constructed between 1893 and 1903, accounting for 65% of the companys wagons built during this period, and by the time the last one rolled off the production line they constituted 45% of the