Model: OO Gauge DC. Freight car 20T Brake Van BR.Brake vans were an essential fixture on freight trains where the continuous brake was not available. Loose-coupled wagons only had hand-operated ˜sprag™ brakes which had to be applied individually, for example, before descending a gradient. Trains were prone to broken coupling chains, so the brake van was essential for bringing a train to a halt under such circumstances. From 1968, the requirement for a brake van to be coupled to a fitted train (w

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