Rapido Trains OO 967215 Rhymney Iron Company Rhymney RCH 1907 7 Plank Open Wagon 421

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 type wagon with die and end doors finished in the grey livery of the Rhymney Iron company wagon number 421. These wagons may have been used to carry coal and iron ore to the furnaces and to deliver the iron produced to the steel and rolling mills of South Wales.