Rapido Trains OO 967212 Firestone Tyres, Brentford RCH 1907 7 Plank Open Wagon 2004

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.This model of a RCH 1907 open wagon with side and end doors is finished in the blue livery of the Firestone Tyre company, being used to ensure a regular supply of coal was available for the company's plant at Brentford. Wagon number 2004.