432477/1959 - British Railways No. 83 - BR Green - DCC Sound Fitted Wagon Type_IIA Biomass Refreshed several times up until

Refreshed several times up until its final withdrawal in 1994 its livery subtly changed each time and our model represents the classic Network SouthEast 1988-91 period with full-length orange cantrail stripe

revised DRS control desk and centre cab partition

Unpainted HYA with Touax branding

As ‘Sprinterisation’ started to bite from the mid 1980s

432477/1959 - British Railways No. 83 - BR Green - DCC Sound Fitted Wagon Type_IIA Biomass Refreshed several times up untilRuston 432477 was built new for British Railways, being delivered to the North Eastern Region Civil Engineers Department at Etherley Tip in Witton, County Durham on 5 January 1959. Expired track ballast and materials were dumped at Etherley in the post war years, with the ballast being removed from the wagons, then passed over a screen to separate the 'fines' and muck from the bigger bits of stone. The fines would be dumped in the nearest low spot,