New BR 20T Brake Vans Announced

Dapol is delighted to announce the launch of our third production run of British Rail Standard 20T Brake Vans with a brand new liveries along with some old favorites

Prototype

The basis of the standard BR Goods Brake Van was the LNER ‘Toad E’ which had several modifications during early construction notably the full length footboards extending from headstock to headstock and the provision of horizontal grab rails along the edge of the concrete end platforms.Up to 1955 vans were fitted with oil lubricated axle boxes, later roller bearing axle boxes were fitted as stand and from 1957 Oleo self-contained pneumatic buffers replaced the spindle typeIn all 4632 were produced for British Railways at Darlington works with a final lot at Ashford. Lot 3402 referred to the construction of six standard goods vans to BR Diagram 1/507 for London Transport in 1962 The last brake vans were withdrawn in the early 90’s 

Proposed Liveries

7F-200-016 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/506 B951509 BR Grey

7F-200-017 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/504 B951344 BR Grey CAO

7F-200-018 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/506 B951327 BR Bauxite CAO

7F-200-019 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/506 B951410 BR Bauxite

7F-200-020 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/506 B955069 BR Bauxite

7F-200-021 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/507 B954921 BR Bauxite CAR

7F-200-022 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/506 KDB 954164 S & T Red/Yellow ZTR

7F-200-023 BR 20T Brake Van London Transport Dgm. 1/507 B.581

7F-200-024 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/507 B954989 Railfreight Dist. CAR

7F-200-025 BR 20T Brake Van Dgm. 1/507 B954686 Railfreight Red/Grey CAR

7F-200-026 BR 20T Brake Van BR Grey Un-Numbered 

7F-200-027 BR 20T Brake Van BR Bauxite Un-Numbered 

Specifications

• ABS body 
• Die cast chassis for added weight. 
• A compensation beam to improve running qualities (standard to all later Dapol designed wagons) 
• Sprung metal buffers 
• Sprung metal couplings either instanter link or screw type where applicable 
• Die-cast wheels with steel tyres 
• Pin-point brass bearings    

Project Update

Artworks are have been prepares and are being reviewed by the design team before they are sent to our partner factory in China. We envisage these models will be in shops Q4 2026 and look forward to bringing you more information about this project as it is available.

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