These were my first steel mineral wagons to join my fleet, and featured a pair of Great Western Railway wagons from the 1920's that were branded to operate from the Steel works at Ebbw Vale.
Lettering, in the top right corner, reads
"EBBW VALE
STEEL IRON
& COAL Co. Ltd
Empty to
Aberbeeg GWR
200 of these 00-gauge wagons have been ordered, with half of them bearing one running number, 10972, and the other half bearing another, 10995. 97 of them bore the first number, whilst 115 bore the second. None were weathered.
