Peco: GRC-019 FR No.88 'Permanent Way Ballast Truck'

GRC019 FR Bogie Ballast Truck No.88

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Excerpt from a Ffestiniog Railway Society Post:
For many of us, with the Curly Roof Van and many other heritage lost artefacts having been recreated.

The one large omission, along with perhaps the pig waggon (a story for another day), is a bogie ballast waggon.

These two waggons, 88 and 105, were very large goods waggons built by the railway to haul ballast, although like all other high sided goods stock they would have taken a variety of loads. With a tare weight of 4-5-0, they were around 4x the weight of a typical 4-wheeler, but offering 6x the capacity being rated for 12 tons of ballast, or 8 tons of coal or corn in sacks. They were both dismantled shortly after WW1. The number plates and some metalwork survived. 

This type of waggon has been on the Aspiration list of the Heritage Group for quite some time and the Wooden Waggon Federation, which was set up to restore and recreate the FR’s multitude of wooden waggons, are now at the point of their upskilling, that this type of waggon is within their grasp. 

The Heritage Group Journal (161 Spring 2025) had a brief description of the early works ongoing. This is a project that will, inevitably, take a number of years to achieve and assistance will be gratefully accepted. The project will be formally launched later this year so if you’re not a member yet, join us to get full details and more from our Journal.

https://www.frheritage.org.uk/membership/