Rapido Trains OO 967209 Ernest Thomas & Jenkins, Swansea RCH 1907 7 Plank Open Wagon 109

A new and highly detailed model of the RCH 1907 design open wagon. One of the most common designs used by private wagon owners these wagons frequently carried brightly coloured and floridly lettered liveries applied before WW1. Many thousands of wagons were built to this specification, the vast majority still running into WW2 and passing to British Railways at nationalisation. Each of the Rapido Trains models features prototype specific variations including end doors or no end door, buffer shank design, wheels, brake fittings and V hanger style.
Model of a RCH 1907 design 7 plank wagon with side and end doors finished in chocolate brown livery as Ernest Thomas & Jenkins wagon number 109. The merchants advertised their business as supplying 'best house gas steam & anthracite coals', South Wales anthracite being considered among the finest smokeless coals to be mined anywhere in the world.