10 Ton Covered Salt Wagon 'Shaka Salt' Weathered During the steam era the salt companies operated a fleet of simple, ridge-roofed wagons designed to provide wetaher protection for the products while being transported by rail. The wagons were based on the RCH 7 or 8 plank open wagon design, usually with cupbaord type doors in place of the coal wagon drop flap door, with extended ends forming an end gable supporting the roof ridge. Due to their specialist service these wagons were not pooled and continued as privately owned wagons into the British Railways period. This model is finished as a wagon in service with the Shaka Salt company and has a heavily weathered finish, typical of wagons running in the years after WW2 and into the 1950s. Branchline models are designed to be a consistent size that is known as OO scale. Our models are large enough to incorporate a high level of detail as well as many additional features such as directional lighting, sound effects and digital. OO scale models run on a track with a gap of 16.5mm between the running rails and this track gauge is the most popular in the world