APCM Cemflo/PCV Powder Cement Wagon - Blue Circle Cement - Pack 3 Mark 5

APCM Cemflo/PCV Powder Cement Wagon - Blue Circle Cement - Pack 3 Mark 5Built between 1961 and 1965 for Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (APCM), the Cemflo PCV wagons are probably best known for their use on trains of Blue Circle cement from Cliffe, in Kent, to Uddingston on the outskirts of Glasgow. During their working lives, they also supplied a number of other locations, including Aberdeen, Dewsbury, Dundee, Grangemouth, Sunderland, and Widnes. The last Cemflo PCV wagons were withdrawn from service in mid 1988.

Upper central lamp iron: present

it lost its Hercules name in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer Sir Edward Elgar – who had no connection with Brunel’s famous railway

his preferred colour being Crimson Lake

another pair of Class 60s was made ready for collection

60047 is one of the last Class 60s still running in this condition for GBRf

but in a welcome change a standard cast nameplate was applied instead of transfers

apart from the first-class upper panels

Other differences were less apparent

it was released from Vulcan Foundry

When operating with an ECoS command station

single spoke and 3-hole disc

accurate scale model