Peco NRC-003B The Hensall Sand Co No 3, 5 Plank Open Wagon KJB Models Special Edition

Peco NRC-003B The Hensall Sand Co No 3, 5 Plank Open Wagon KJB Models Special Edition

N Gauge

This wagon is a Special Edition that we have produced with Peco to celebrate the location of our shop.

Our shop is the Old Railway Tavern, also previously know as The Railway Hotel which is situated on the opposite side of the track to Hensall Station.

The Hensall Sand Company Wagon No 2 was built in 1907 and was broken up in 1949.

Hensall is situated between Knottingley and Goole in North Yorkshire. It lies on rich sand deposits which in the past have been quarried.  The Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole railway opened in 1846 to take aggregate and coal to Goole Docks. In 1847 the company became the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) and the following year provided a station and goods facility in Hensall Village. As well as freight, the station was used for passengers to change for destinations like Leeds & Wakefield.

This lasted until 1886, when Knottingley provided a better service. Hensall Station once had 18 signallers, porters, crossing keepers and shunters, and in the 1950s there were 20 stopping trains a day. Now through, there is only one in the morning and one in the early evening earning it the title of least used station in North Yorkshire.  Freight wise, the line is mostly used for traffic in and out of Drax Power station.

Being new tooling you can expect a step up on detail: crisply moulded parts, thinner walls to the body, correct 9 foot wheelbase, detachable couplings and metal-tyred wheels for free running.