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Seven Plank Wagons
Northern Fine Scale Gauge 1 Seven Plank Wagons are modelled on those used in Britain as a large-size railway bulk carriers. Both the railway companies and private owners maintained large fleets. These wagons often carried the owner's name and functioned as widely seen and much repeated advertisements for the company.
Please note that all Northern Fine Scale Seven Plank Wagons kits are available with transfers (Decals) in the liveries of the "Big Four" British railway companies.
J.C. Abbott of Birmingham was a large company of coal factors who
supplied quantities of coal to industrial users. Deliveries ranged from
one wagon to whole trainloads.
They bought coal from the South Wales
collieries as well as those in the Midlands and North, and had many
contracts supplying gasworks and electricity generating stations.
Wagons
both with and without coke rails would be seen throughout the country.
Wagons would deliver coal to a customer and then return filled with
coke.
The coke rail option is available with this wagon model.
Anderson & Company of Whitstable were coal factors who received
their supplies by both rail and sea from the Yorkshire, Derbyshire and
Nottingham coalfields.
They delivered wagon loads throughout the south
east to coal merchants and industrial consumers. Their wagons would have
been seen on the Southern, LNER, LMS systems, and occasionally on the
GWR when bringing loads from South Wales collieries.
This model is of the side door loading pattern.
A.G. Bailey, were Kentish coal merchants, based in Ashford with
depots at the Charing, Smeeth, and Folkstone Junction stations.
Their
wagons would be seen throughout the south-east as well as in trains to
and from the Nottingham and South Wales coalfields where they obtained
most of their coal.
This model is of the side door loading pattern.
Birley Colliery was owned by the Sheffield Coal Company, and
straddled the Yorkshire -- Derbyshire border from whence came some of
the finest gas coal in the country.
The product was in great demand and
Birley wagons were seen all over the country reaching as far south as
London in the east, and Cardiff in the west. Coke rails were used to
convert the wagons for carrying coke.
Wagons were generally painted
black although some were finished in grey. The corners of Birley wagons
were always painted white giving a striking effect.
The coke rail option is available with this wagon model.
The City of Birmingham Gas Department was, in 1939, the single
largest utility in the country, owning five gasworks and over 2,100
wagons.
Their annual coal demand was over a million tons. Most of the
coal came from the coalfields of Nottingham, Staffordshire, Derbyshire
and Yorkshire.
Coke produced in the municipal gasworks was delivered
throughout the country in wagons fitted with removable coke rails.
The coke rail option is available with this wagon model.
The Bolsover Colliery Company had a very large fleet of wagons
supplying the domestic market as well as steamship companies and the
export market.
Consequently their wagons would have been seen throughout
the country, often marshalled in multiples in trains.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
A large company of coal merchants founded circa 1907, G. Bryer Ash
had eleven depots by 1927, ranging from Exeter to Bristol, east to
Basingstoke, and south to Portsmouth.
The company served much of the
south and south-west of England. Supplying the domestic trade, as well
as industrial clients such as gasworks, they also delivered coal from
the Hatfield Main Colliery near Doncaster to the Huntley and Palmer
biscuit factory at Reading.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
A prominent London company of coal merchants, Charringtons (not
the brewery) had sixteen depots in London and an additional thirty in
Middlesex and Surrey.
Between 1922 and 1930 the bought 1,150 wagons from
several builder. Their equipment would have been seen throughout much
of the country.
Coalite produced their smokeless fuel at Darton in the middle of the Yorkshire coalfields and delivered it throughout the United Kingdom in their distinctively liveried wagons.
The coke rail option is available with this wagon model.
(Edwin) E.A. Cornwall was a London coal dealer with depots around the
capital in such places as Brixton, West Kensington and Finchley Road
and served both residential and commercial customers.
Obtaining their
coal from South Wales and the North one could expect to see these
colourful wagons in all regions.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
Samuel Courtaulds & Company was founded in the early 1800s and by
the turn of the century had become a major player in the textile and
chemical industries.
There is little information about their wagons but
you can be sure that it was a substantial fleet since their use of coal
at their different plants around the country would have been
considerable.
A. G. Thomas saw and recorded No. 18 painted green with
white lettering, and we can only speculate that other wagons may have
been red oxide, grey, or black.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
Flower & Sons Brewery of Stratford-on-Avon was one of the few
breweries to have owned their own open wagons.
They bought their first
in 1913 and their last, No. 9, in 1937. Because Welsh anthracite was
their coal of choice, their wagons would only have been seen on the GWR.
It is unlikely that wagons would have been used for any beer
deliveries, though one can never say 'never.'
This model is of the side door loading pattern.
Great Mountain Colliery information is limited, but this
Glamorganshire colliery would have produced high quality coal much
demand in the domestic and industrial markets.
Their wagons were
registered with the GWR and it is fair to assume they would have been
seen as far away as London and the Home Counties, and also in the
Midlands.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
Manvers Main had three coalmines in the Rotherham area producing 1½
million tons of high quality coal a year by the 1930s, all of it moved
by rail.
They owned well over 1,000 wagons which would have been seen on
the lines of all the Big Four throughout the country.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
Micklefield Coal & Lime Company owned the Peckfield Colliery at
Micklefield and produced gas, house, and steam coal.
Much of their coal
was exported through the docks at Hull and Goole, but their wagons were
seen as far south as London.
They owned several hundred wagons that
travelled widely and the recorded numbers we know of were 200-299 and
400-599.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
Coal factors Thomas Moy of Colchester had depots in London, Norfolk
and Suffolk as well as Essex.
Their wagons would have been seen all over
the eastern side of the country as far north as Yorkshire from where
they obtained some of their coal.
They operated their wagons with
removable coke rails.
The coke rail option is available with this wagon model.
The Primrose Colliery Company owned several pits in the Swansea
valley, and their wagons would have travelled widely from Liverpool and
Manchester in the North to London and the Home Counties in the East.
The Primrose Colliery was situated near the Welsh village of Rhos, between
Pontardawe and Neath. The area produced very high quality anthracite in
abundance.
In 1908, Pantyffynnon Station opened, creating a junction of
the LNWR linking Llandeilo/Pontardulais, and the Amman Valley GWR line
to Brynamman.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
R. Pugh & Company was a London coal merchant with depots at
Chelsea Basin and Gospel Oak.
They owned about 40 wagons and had a Royal
Warrant from King Edward VII (1901-1910) and obtained coal (it can be
assumed best quality) from the Derbyshire coalfields.
As Royal Warrant
holders they would have supplied Buckingham Palace and their wagons
would have been used to supply Windsor Castle and also the Sandringham
Estate in Norfolk.
This model is of the side door loading pattern
.
Rickett Cockerell and Company, or Ricketts as they would be known
(much the same way that F. W. Woolworth were always known as
Woolworths), were the largest suppliers of house coal in London and the
Home Counties.
With 4,500 wagons supplying 180 depots in that area they
would have been a common sight and with the Company obtaining their coal
from the North, the Midlands and Wales wagons would have been seen on
the lines of all the Big Four railway companies.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
Stephenson Clarke and Associated Companies. Ltd was the largest
distributors of coal in the UK with a fleet of over 10,000 coal and coke
wagons.
The company had contacts to supply, amongst others, the
Admiralty and the Southern Railway, plus power stations and major
shipping fleets, so these colourful wagons would have been seen in
profusion throughout the country.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
Wallace Spiers was a large London coal merchant who supplied both
residential and commercial customers.
Buying much coal from the
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire collieries, the distinctive yellow wagons
would have been seen mostly on the LMS between London and the North,
and throughout the Home Counties.
This model is of the side door and end door loading pattern.
Arthur Stabler was a coal distributor with a fleet of several hundred
wagons that supplied coal and coke to major companies in the Industrial
North.
Coke was obtained mostly from Staveley's coke ovens in
Derbyshire.
Seven plank wagons would have been seen both with and
without coke rails until Stablers ceased trading around 1933.
The coke rail option is available with this wagon model.
The Staveley Coal and Iron Company established in the mid-1800's in
Derbyshire, was a large enterprise.
Apart from owning nine collieries,
it also held chemical works, blast furnaces and coke ovens.
They used
their wagons to advertise their products and employed them for shipping
coal, and for the delivery of finished products.
Wagons would range far
and wide throughout the country. We have three different decal sets for
Staveley.
These models are of the side door loading pattern.
T. W. Ward Ltd of Sheffield had private sidings at different
locations as far south as Essex as well as throughout the Midlands and
Yorkshire.
They were dealers in coal, coke and also scrap metal. Their
large fleet of wagons would have been seen over a large part of the
country both with and without coke rails.
The coke rail option is available with this wagon model.
B. Whitaker and Sons were quarry owners and brickmakers who would
have used substantial quantities of coal for their kilns.
It is unlikely
that their wagons were used to deliver bricks, and the 50 wagons bought
in 1922 would have been seen mainly in the North and the Midlands.
This model is of the side door loading pattern.