Paul Isles, Project Manager at Accurascale UK joins Mike Wild in the Hornby Magazine workshop to reveal the manufacturers latest 'OO' gauge project.
Accurascale has revealed that its next ready-to-run ‘OO’ gauge model will replicate the Great Western Railway and British Railways built Siphon G bogie milk and parcels vans.
The first of these distinctive bogie vans were introduced by the GWR with inside frames in 1906 and these were later updated with inside frames from 1926. They were built for the transport of milk churns but were later used on parcels, mail and newspaper traffic.
Above: Accurascale’s next ‘OO’ gauge ready-to-run model will be the Siphon G bogie parcels van. A Class 45 recreates a newspaper train with the engineering samples on Topley Dale.
Numerous diagrams were built over the years and a batch of GWR Siphon Gs were also requisitioned for use as ambulance cars in the Second World War with a number being transported to mainland Europe for this purpose. Such was the value of the Siphon G that further vehicles were built by British Railways after nationalisation between 1950 and 1955 prior to the introduction of standard stock.
The Siphon G va…
