Skip to content
Earl of Durham Chaldron Pack

Earl of Durham Chaldron Pack

SKU ACC2805-F
Sold out
$70.00 - $70.00
$70.00
$70.00 - $70.00
$70.00
Availability:
Out of stock

Three wagon multi-pack, NER 4T Chaldron

Pack F: Lambton Collieries (Earl of Durham’s Collieries) - Three ex-NER P1 style Chaldrons in pre-1896 livery.

Containing three wagons, numbered:

  • 3178
  • 3216
  • 3820

Each pack produced has been themed by colliery, and each waggon depicted is based on photographic evidence and reference to colliery records to confirm lettering styles. Some packs contain just one style of waggon, while others contain mixed styles where research has shown that they operated in conjunction with each other. 

Specification List:

  • Die-cast metal chassis with plastic body. Weight of 9g unloaded.
  • Operates over minimum radius curves (371mm, 1st radius set-track)
  • Five different body designs, covering a time period from 1840 to 1978.
  • Three styles of wheel design; split spoke, star spoke and wave spoke, to a blackened 00 gauge RP25-88 profile.
  • Three styles of braking arrangement and brake handles, with different block types and the more complicated Londonderry clasp type brake.
  • Three arrangements of ‘bang-boards’.
  • Additional, removable ‘greedy boards’ (horizontal board extensions to the body) to the Shildon Works built Chaldron, giving an increased coal loading.
  • Scale width wire handrails, metal pin jaw coupling and wire/etch handbrake levers.
  • Eroded metal/plastic detail parts, including grab handles, door securing pins, chassis chain points and safety chains in metal.
  • Wagons connected via an all new link fine chain with Neodymium magnetic heads, connected at the wagon via prototypical cotter pin coupling.
  • Two extra NEM fitted magnetic couplings supplied with wagon packs to allow for fitting to locomotives and/or additional rolling stock.
  • Artwork features authentic colliery markings and numbers, accurate to time period modelled and based on actual photographic evidence where possible.
  • Additional research assistance provided by Beamish Living Museum, Bowes Railway and the North Eastern Railway Association.

Customer Reviews

Based on 4 reviews
100%
(4)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
R
Richard M.
Review for multiple sets of Caldren wgns purchased 90+ days ago

First of all a big thank you for introducing such a brilliant era2 product - your sales rep at the A.P show last year and again later in the year at Milton Keynes was absolutely brilliant in selling these wagons and helping me purchase the right kind : mainly era 2 and a small amount of later eras. He answered all my questions with enthusiasm and was delighted with my own enthusiasm for this fabulous subject of caldron wagons - I am so pleased you introduced these partrticular wagons! I want to give you a ten out of ten for that which includes the meticulous research and enthusiasm shown by this particular rep who spoke with me.

I loved the detailing - again ten out of ten.

I loved the novalty idea using chain links and the deployment of powerful little magnets to couple rakes of wagons together - again a ten out of ten for the idea and ingenuity.

If there was one little critisism it would be that the actual magnets are a wee bit bulky - I guess physics really dictates that requirement.

One other critisism: the chain assemblies on some of my caldron wagons were not quite right - basically manufacturing production defects. This latter problem would reduce the overall score from a perfect ten to nine out of ten - especially as I cannot correct the two or three intances of where this fault was manifest. I purchased something like five rakes in all; possibly six - that is a reflection of how brilliant I think these caldron wagons are! I would have purchased a further rake had it not sold out so early - I think it was the first to sell out!

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

Shalom Accurascale
Richard (Moody)

C
Craig W.
Good models that fill a niche for early prototypes

Good models that fill a niche for early prototypes

B
Bob H.
Earl of Durham Chaldron pack.

I was born and still live in Shildon so it's a no brainer to have these on my layout. They are exactly like the one on display less than 100 yards from my house! Wish more pioneering stuff was available (save me scratch building lol)

J
James

Quality