R60203 YMO 'Salmon' Bogie BR Wagon scale-model-scenery F2 - Brake

F2 - Brake

Awdry to immortalise them in his Railway Series stories as Bill and Ben

along with turned metal buffers

and designed by James Stirling

R60203 YMO 'Salmon' Bogie BR Wagon scale-model-scenery F2 - BrakeThe LMS, beImage courtesy of Paul Bartletting the largest of the Big Four railway companies, was behind a great number of freight wagons, including some of the first large bogie flat wagons. British Rail, when they took charge of the UK national rail network chose an aquatic theme for their freight wagons, and as such the LMS bogie flat design would come to be called the Salmon. Salmon wagons were designed to carry lengths of rail and later, track