Rapido Trains OO 967022 Metropolitan Railway 5 Plank Open Wagon 544 Grey MET Single Side Brake

This model of Metropolitan Railway wagon 544 is being produced to match with the Rapido Trans model of Metropolitan Railway class E 0-4-4T No.1 using the new Rapido RCH 1907 type 5 plank wagon tooling.
The Metropolitan Railway operated it's own fleet of goods wagons, providing wagons to customers at the company's stations in the same way as the other mainline railway companies. MET wagons could arrive at any station on Britains' railway network until the formation of London Transport in the 1930s, when Metropolitan goods service was taken over by the LNER. The 5 plank open wagon was one of the most common general merchandise wagon types operated by the railway companies.