ZJV Mermaid 14t Ballast Tipper - Now Released!

Courtesy of Malcolm (malkymackay) comes another fantastic wagon for TS2013, this time a ZJV Mermaid 14t Ballast Tipper. It can be downloaded by following this link.

Here is some background information, as given by Malcolm in the documentation...

The Mermaid Ballast wagons were an unusual Side-tipping design built by Metropolitan-Cammell, with the Great Western Railway purchasing 60 examples in 1930. BR bought 89 identical unfitted wagons between 1954 & 1957, classified as Diag. 1/573. The design was updated with Vacuum brakes, to Diag. 1/575, and 550 were built between 1959 and 1961. It is these wagons that are modelled, though the Unfittted BR wagons were later fitted with Vacuum Brakes.

I have chosen to represent them with the TOPS code of ZJV and painted in Departmental Olive Green. There is a lightly weathered version in late 70's/early 80's condition. A well used, rusty version, suitable for late 80's/early 90's scenarios is also included.
There are seperate empty & loaded options, to take account of the different braking performance, plus versions with a tail lamp.

These wagons are not blessed with powerful brakes, so don't expect them to slow down very quickly, especially the loaded ones.