Revolution Trains RT-OO-IHA-404D

IHA Steel Carrier Wagon Ermewa branded livery 33 87 4667 107-6

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Prototype Eras
Era 9 (1995 to 2004) Initial Privatisation
Era 10 (2005 to 2015) Rebuilding of the Railways
Era 11 (2016 to 2025) Current Era

Manufacturer description

250 IHA steel carriers were built to transport high-grade steel on a variety of flows. These include domestic steel from South Wales to destinations in the midlands, north and south-east of England and via the Channel tunnel to customers in France, Belgium and Holland. The IHAs are also used to feed imported steel from ports on the east coast and Thames estuary to steel terminals inland.  The first batch of 48 wagons were built by Fauvet Girel in 1991 with further batches built in 1993 and 1998. There are very minor variations between batches and these are accounted for in the Revolution tooling.

Now owned by wagon leasing company Ermewa, the wagons have red bogies, underframes and ends and grey canvas covers.  Some have yellow dots painted in the covers signifying they are reserved for domestic traffic only. As the canvas covers come due for renewal, wagon owners Ermewa began adding its branding more prominently.

Our model features:

Our OO gauge (1:76.2 scale) model of the IHA steel carrier includes our normal features:

• Photo-etched platforms at one end
  
• NEM coupler pockets in kinematic mounts
  
• Designed for easy conversion to EM or P4 with axles set at 26mm. The brake
• blocks on the model will be supplied correct for its OO wheels, but additional mounting holes have been incorporated for EM/P4
  
• Fine wheelsets to NMRA RP25 standards
  
• Designed for Peco radius 2 curves
  

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