GR340UG - PECO - OO-9 - Snailbeach Hopper Wagon, Unlettered Grey

Peco

£26.38

The Snailbeach District Railways system was located in Shropshire and was built to carry lead ore over a narrow gauge route with a gauge of 2ft 4 inches. The mines were located at Stiperstones and theyÂ transferred their ore to a connection with the Great Western Railway at Pontesbury.Â A fleet of various hopper wagons was used to transportÂ the ore and it is one of those wagons that is the subject of our new model. Opened in 1877 the railwayÂ was finally closed in 1959, latterlyÂ using tractors to move the hoppers after the end of steam.

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as PECO PUBLICATIONS & PUBLICITY,LIMITED, number 00501541. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
The company describes its own premises: "From our factory in Beer, Devon, we design, tool and manufacture the track systems, kits and accessories trusted by modellers in every corner of the world." Self-declared (§3.3), read from the company's site. Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
Not established. Many companies file a statement rather than naming a controlling shareholder.
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Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
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