Cavalex delivers its debut wagon…
• Price: £30.00
• Cat No: CMPC012R
• Site: www.cavalexmodels.com
• Era: 8-9
ENTERING the ‘OO’ gauge ready-to-run market is a big challenge today, but Cavalex Models is arriving in style with its outstanding model of the Standard Wagon Company built PGA 51-tonne aggregate hopper. The first were built in 1978 to design code PG012A and they remain in service today on aggregate traffic that they were built for. When delivered from Standard Wagon’s Heywood works they were for Redland stone trains but more recently have been in service with LaFarge aggregates. They operated from Mountsorrel in Leicestershire to East Anglia, the Southern Region, London, the South East and onto the Western Region while traction over the years has included classes 20, 25, 33, 45, 47, 56, 58, 60, 66 and 73.
Construction of the PGA consists of a mixture of etched metal and injection moulded plastic to create both the main body and its intricate details. It rides on turned metal wheels on free running pin point axles as well as being equipped with small tension lock couplings in NEM pockets. Buffers are static.
The hopper body accurately models the real wagons and even has a full depth interior leadi…
