R60203 YMO 'Salmon' Bogie BR Wagon scale-model-scenery and designed by James Stirling

and designed by James Stirling

along with turned metal buffers

Several of the Class are named including the first locomotive

The 4 wheel hopper wagons provided an increased payload over the types they replaced and were operated by Associated British Maltsters Ltd

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

R60203 YMO 'Salmon' Bogie BR Wagon scale-model-scenery and designed by James StirlingThe 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