By Mike Wild.
Review
The idea of a standard wagon design stretches back nearly 200 years to the Great Northern coalfields. The need for a standard measurement for coal traffic saw collieries and merchants create the Chaldron wagon – a wagon type which could hold a set amount of coal for transport.
Early genesis of the type stretches back beyond the adoption of railway locomotives, but from 1820 the ‘modern’ Chaldron wagon, as modelled by Accurascale, came into being.
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