Rapido Trains OO 967014 John Smith & Sons, Aberfeldy RCH 1907 Type 5 Plank Open Wagon 3

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.
Typical of many country coal merchants John Smith & Sons served the local agricultural community, adding lime & potato merchants to the side of their 5 plank wagon number 3.