Latest Antics Special Edition

Hoare Brothers of Marsh Mills, Plymouth operated a fleet of railway wagons for many years. The wagons advertised the brothers' business as tarmacadam and stone merchants, these four plank types formed most of the early fleet. The low sides helped prevent overloading with heavy stone materials. Road building materials were conveyed from quarries and roadstone coating plants to depots in South Devon. The main depot was at Marsh Mills, however the wagons would often have been unloaded in local station goods yards near to the current customer or road surfacing project.

This wagon, number 60, has been modelled from a photograph where it is seen alongside a GWR 2721 type pannier tank circa 1930.

A fine coated roadstone load is supplied, representing material used for forming a tarmacadam road surface, ready to extend the network of surfaced roads around your local station.