Rapido Trains OO 967213 Bwlch Colliery Company, Hirwain RCH 1907 7 Plank Open Wagon 131

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 7 plank wagon with side and end doors is finished in the plain black livery used by the Bwlch Colliery company of Hirwain in the Taff Valley of South Wales. Wagon number 131.