O Gauge MHA Coalfish

Prototype Background

As the Merry-go-Round hopper coal wagons were reducing in numbers considerably, during 1997, surplus wagons donated their underframes to a fleet of ballast wagons for hire to the infrastructure maintenance companies.A total of 1,071 were so converted between 1997 to 2007, the later wagons having some  detail differences to the  number of vertical ribs on the bodies. Dapol are making models of the original batch of 400 wagons built at RFS Doncaster between 1997 and 1998 Coded MHA Coalfish 

Specifications

• Die-cast compensated chassis and underframe
• Die-cast and profiled wheels
• Sprung metal buffers
• Working instanter couplings coupling
• Finely applied livery   

Proposed Models

• 7F-082-001MHA Wagon EWS 394102 
• 7F-082-002MHA Wagon EWS 394133 
• 7F-082-003MHA Wagon EWS 394200 
• 7F-082-004MHA Wagon EWS 394207

Recommend Retail Price

Project Update

The EP sample is currently being evaluated by the design team. Artworks are being produced and we look forward to being able to bring you photographs of these when the arrive. 

We expect these models to be in shops some time in Q2 2025.

Pre-Order at your preferred Dapol stockist today