Model of DSB PD open freigth wagon.
The model includes the following features:
- Body in plastic, chassis in diecast metal
- Fully-sprung buffers
- Metal wire handrails
- Separately-added end door lock detail
- Prototypically true-scale thin sidewalls
- Opening doors
History:
The three open PD wagons were 3 wagons that were returned to Denmark after World War II in 1950-51. The reason for the return was that the Scandia wagon factory in Randers, at the behest of the Germans, recieved an order for 600 open waons of the Linz type for the German State Railways (DR). They were delivered while the Danish policy of cooperation continued to function without significant resistance.
The fact that only three carriages were retunered, was partly due to many damaged wagons throughout Europe, and partly because the return was put on hold in the early 1950s. It was otherwise intended that all 600 wagons should have been returned. All three carriages were thus heavily damaged and had to be rebuilt before DSB’s entry into service.
Two of the carriages, 27401 and 27403, have a special history. The former was converted in the years 1956-59 for the transport of rubber latex with the sides and ends removed and five containers were placed on the bottom of the wagon. The wagons were restored to their original appearance after the rental. 27403 was sold to HFHJ (Frederiksværkbanen) in 1962 as a replacement for a low-sided freight wagon that DSB had destroyed in an accident the same year.
All the wagons survived through the 1960s. The two remaining DSB wagons had become local wagons in Copenhagen around 1966/67, while the Frederiksværkbanen wagon was scrapped around 1973.
