Rapido Trains OO 967219 Great Western Railway RCH 1907 7 Plank Coal Wagon 09244

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.
Although finished in the Great Western Railway dark grey goods wagon colours this wagon is evidently on hire, carrying 'duplicate list' number 09244 to avoid confusion with the GWRs own wagon 9244 and with repair instructions on the door for the owners repair agents in Cardiff.