Peco Quality Line NR-12 Railfreight VBB Van Prototype

[John M Upton]

Hello

 

I have just picked up a Peco N scale NR-12R Railfreight VBB van (which by the by comes in the nice useful new larger clear plastic box!) and was wondering what the prototype for this van is as a quick Google of the VBB code comes up with very different beasts to what is sitting in front of me right now!

Edited August 16, 2017 by John M Upton

[Fat Controller]

Hello

 

I have just picked up a Peco N scale NR-12R Railfreight VBB van (which by the by comes in the nice useful new larger clear plastic box!) and was wondering what the prototype for this van is as a quick Google of the VBB code comes up with very different beasts to what is sitting in front of me right now!

It's one of the Peco N range that was designed to fit the 15' wheelbase underframe used on their tanks, so a work of fiction. A scale VBB would be about a third longer (20'9" wheelbase). In the case of other vehicles in the same range, some are too short (the pallet van) and others too long (the Ferry open).

[Steven B]

To add to the comments above, it's basically a stretched BR (ex LNER design) Fish Van. The Dapol Fish van is what it should look like (the fish van never carried Railfreight red/grey livery).

 

 

Steven B.

[woodenhead]

It harks back to the era when wagons were designed to a chassis rather than a chassis fit for the wagon.

 

Hornby also did that at the same time - sometimes they didn't even bother to match a wagon body to the chassis - there was one van still in circulation quite recently where the chassis was longer than the body.

 

Luckily we live in more enlightened times now.