This wagon represents one used by a colliery outside the small seaside town of Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire.
Saundersfoot now relies heavily on its tourist trade but a century ago things were very different. Now, if you visit the place, you have to hunt to find signs of the once thriving coal industry, but you don't have to hunt too much. The street just behind the sea front leads to a tunnel and the route, now a footpath, of the four foot gauge railway to Stepaside. This follows the coast through tunnels and one can imagine the coal trains that used to trundle along there.
In another direction there is "The Incline" where a coal line was. Coal wagons were hauled up the incline from and to the docks to get to a reasonable level where the steam engines could take over. From the coal mines there were also connections to the GWR at Saundersfoot station - now a shadow of its former self. The passenger station once boasted two platforms and there were the exchange sidings where Bonvilles Court Coal Company wagons were marshalled for onward transhipment by the GWR.
This is a grey liveried wagon with white lettering - no shading.
164 of these models were produced, of which 50 were weathered.
The final ones were sold at the Carmarthen Toyfair in April 2010
