During the 2024 International N Gauge Show, NGN was able to take a close up look at the livery samples for the Revolution Trains N Gauge IHA/sfhimmns steel carrier wagons.
250 IHA steel carriers were built to transport high-grade steel on a variety of flows. These include domestic steel from South Wales to destinations in the midlands, north and south-east of England and via the Channel tunnel to customers in France, Belgium and Holland. The IHAs are also used to feed imported steel from ports on the east coast and Thames estuary to steel terminals inland.
The first batch of 48 wagons were built by Fauvet Girel in 1991 with further batches built in 1993 and 1998. There are very minor variations between batches and these have been accounted for in the Revolution Trains tooling.
Now owned by wagon leasing company Ermewa, the wagons have red bogies, underframes and ends and grey canvas covers. Some have yellow dots painted in the covers signifying they are reserved for domestic traffic only. As the canvas covers come due for renewal, wagon owners Ermewa began adding its branding more prominently.
The Revolution Trains model will incorporate the following features:
Moulded representation of the canvas covers
Photo-etched platforms at one end
NEM coupler pockets in kinematic mounts
Fine wheelsets to NMRA RP25 standards
Designed for Peco radius 2 curves
Four livery variations (with 4 numbers of each variations ie 16 different numbers in total) are currently available for pre-order directly from Revolution Trains:
Original as built
HT lettering and dot with white roof ends – these wagons were only used for domestic traffic
H lettering and dot – these wagons were only used for domestic traffic
Ermewa branding
Pre-orders are expected to close shortly so for more information and to order visit the Revolution Trains website.
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