This Great Northern Railway carriage truck and horsebox are illustrated in D. K. Clark’s Railway Machinery and represent vehicles ordered by the Great Northern Railway in 1849 to the design of Archibald Sturrock. For some time after the models were produced it was in doubt whether they had actually been built, but Tadeusz Opyrchal subsequently discovered the original purchase orders for them in the GN archive! Subsequent to that, a photograph came to light showing two of the very distinctive horseboxes, with characteristic ‘dog boxes’ at either end, at Folkestone on the SER. So it seems that they existed after all! (It is recorded that dogs would ‘leap with enthusiasm’ into similar dog boxes, perhaps glad to escape the bustle and commotion of a 19th century railway station!). Drawings for both models were traced into CAD from Railway Machinery and printed in etched brass to 10mm/ft scale, Gauge 1. The carriage, a ‘Brougham’ (pronounced ‘broom’), is made from a white metal kit by Phoenix Models (now sold by S&D Models) and painted to represent a surviving example in the museum at Cedar City, Utah