Rapido Trains OO 967003 John Arnold & Sons, Wickwar RCH 1907 5 Plank Open Wagon 110
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 design 5 plank open wagon is finished in the red livery of John Arnold & Sons, operators of the roadstone quarries at Wickwar, Gloucestershire. Wagon number 110 is marked for return to the nearby GWR station at Chipping Sodbury.