Hornby OO R6643A BR Shunters Truck DW94980 Park Royal

A new model of the GWR diagram M3 shunters truck. These small wagons were provided for shunters in the GWR to provide a safe riding vehicle plus a mobile store for shunting poles, brake sticks, wheel chocks and spare lamps. The truck also provided a useful spacer between the locomotive and wagons being shunted, so wagons could be positioned in or collected from inside a goods shed without the locomotive having to enter the building.

This model is finished in as a truck running in British Railways years with a DW prefixed number, but still painted in the GW goods grey livery. Truck allocated to Park Royal, an industrial area to the west of London which included the AEC Park Royal works where London buses and diesel railcars were built and the Guinness plant.