972013 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon NE Loco No.O197 Gift Cards Mercedes Actros semi low loader

Mercedes Actros semi low loader decorated in the corporate yellow and black company colour scheme

most notably the parallel boiler and Fowler-designed cab

Two running light configurations

LENGTH 148mm

it was intended that the push-pull operation would benefit Royal Mail’s planned Railnet Hub terminal at Willesden which opened in 1996

972013 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon NE Loco No.O197 Gift Cards Mercedes Actros semi low loaderDesigned to replace the ageing 8 ton and 9 ton timber framed wagons of the 1870s and 1880s, the Diagram 17s were a robust steel framed 5 plank wagon with a 9ft wheelbase, a set of doors on either side and an improved 10 ton load capacity. 12,050 examples were constructed between 1893 and 1903, accounting for 65% of the companys wagons built during this period, and by the time the last one rolled off the production line they constituted 45% of the