Rapido Trains OO 967220 Great Central Railway RCH 1907 7 Plank Coal Wagon 05057
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.
The railway companies often purchased standard RCH coal wagons used to supply additional wagons to customers and to supply their own locomotives. This wagon painted in grey livery and lettered for the Great Central Railway has side and end doors. The number 05057 beginning with a 0 suggests a wagon on hire from the builder, either to cover a short-term demand or in lieu of wagons ordered but still under construction. The zero prefix was added to avoid exactly duplicating any other wagon the company had numbered 5057.