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Hornby Railroad: 20T ZTV Brake Van BR Departmental
Hornby Railroad: 20T ZTV Brake Van BR Departmental

Hornby Railroad: 20T ZTV Brake Van BR Departmental "Dutch" DB950406

Code: R60351
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Railroad: 20T ZTV Brake Van BR Departmental "Dutch" DB950406

Brake vans were an essential fixture on freight trains where the continuous brake was not available. Loose-coupled wagons only had hand-operated ‘sprag’ brakes which had to be applied individually, for example, before descending a gradient. 

Trains were prone to broken coupling chains, so the brake van was essential for bringing a train to a halt under such circumstances. From 1968, the requirement for a brake van to be coupled to a fitted train (wagons with vacuum brakes) was removed from the rule book. BR adopted the LNER ‘Toad D’ van as the basis for its own standard brake van design. 

This OO gauge model van is an example of a BR 20T Brake Van.

- OO Scale

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