Ratio 547 Coaling Tower OO Gauge Kit

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£42.99

If your steam-era layout is missing that authentic working depot feel, a coaling tower is one of those details that really earns its place. The Ratio 547 gives you exactly that — a well-considered model of the kind of coaling structure you'd have found serving small steam engine depots up and down the country. The Prototype The design is based on a practical workhorse of the steam age. Coal would be loaded into the elevated steel bunker and then gravity-fed down into the tender or bunker of whichever locomotive was waiting below. Simple, effective, and entirely period-correct for any steam dep

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