Description
Rapido Trains UK is evolving pre-grouping passenger stock in an exciting new way!
· New OO Gauge 48-foot ‘Evolution’ Bogie Coaches – designs inspired by a multitude of pre-grouping coaching stock prototypes!
· 9 different liveries available.
· Non-corridor brake third, third, and composite body versions.
· Numerous tooling differences of iconic coach features including roofing, lighting, and footboards.
· Working internal lighting controlled by our magnetic magic wand, with detailing parts to represent both gas and electric fittings.
· Lots of separately fitted parts, internally and externally.
· Fully detailed guard’s van/luggage compartment interior.
· Fitted NEM pockets, with optional close coupling bar included.
· Available to order now!
Rapido Trains UK is proud to announce that they will be adding a diverse collection of pre-grouping coaches to their range, with the new OO Gauge 48’ ‘Evolution’ Bogie Coaches.
With numerous locos and a boatload of era-appropriate wagons under their belt, the pre-grouping era has become a quintessentially ‘Rapido’ thing, so we thought it was about time we produced some more suitable coaches.
There is such a variety of coaching prototypes in the pre-grouping era that it has been impossible for our industry to make 100% accurate models for all of them. We are filling this gap with a selection of generic 48’ bogie coaches, each detailed with an array of key features that modellers associate with their railway of choice. We have dubbed this exciting new coach project ‘Evolution’. So, what tooling does this entail?
The coaches’ roofs were one of the most iconic features of the era, so we have included arc, elliptical, and clerestory designs across the range, and made the roofs easily removable so that you can fit figures into your coaches should you wish.
We have added some rather nice interior detailing too, such as luggage racks, picture frames on compartment dividers, and a fully detailed guard’s van/luggage compartment in the brake third variant. There is also a multitude of separately-fitted parts to bring the coaches to life, including door and grab handles, and passenger emergency alarm “butterflies” at one end.
All Evolution coaches will include fitted internal working lighting controlled by our magnetic magic wand, making it much easier to see these lovely details.
To complete the appearance of different gas and electric lighting fittings, the relevant models will feature separately fitted parts for battery and regulator boxes, a dynamo, roof-mounted gas lamps, plumbing, and gas tanks on the underframes.
Battery boxes and gas tanks aren’t the only external details below the frame. Each Evolution coach will feature Fox pattern bogies fitted with electrical pickups. Some versions will feature extra footboards on the bogies and there are also additional central lower footboards on some designs too.
Finally, each coach is fitted with NEM pockets and has optional close coupling bars (modelled on vacuum pipes) included.
Our ‘Evolution’ coaches are currently in tooling. The order book is open, and you can order yours directly from here today.
Model Fact File: OO Gauge 48’ ‘Evolution’ Bogie Coaches
Which versions and liveries are we making?
We will be making a non-corridor Brake Third, Third, and Composite coach body variants. These will be available in multipacks, featuring 1 of each body version.
Should modellers wish to extend their rake, single versions of each coach with alternative running numbers are also available.
You can look forward to Batch 1 of project ‘Evolution’ including liveries from the following railway companies:
· South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SKUS 978001-4)
· Midland Railway (SKUS 978005-8)
· London & North Western Railway (SKUS 978009-12)
· Great Western Railway (SKUS 978013-16)
· Great Central Railway (SKUS 978017-20)
· Great Northern Railway (SKUS 978021-24)
· Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway (SKUS 978025-28)
· London, Brighton & South Coast (SKUS 978029-32)
· Longmoor Military Railway (SKUS 978033-36)
Further batches are planned and will include other pre-grouping, grouping and nationalisation era liveries, with the potential of future additional tooling.
Price? Three pack sets – £179.95 from Enwins (RRP £199.95)
Single coaches – £59.95 from Enwins (RRP £69.95)
