We announce a new production run of our popular GWR Steam Railmotors.
The Great Western Railway wanted a cost-effective way to improve local passenger services at the start of the Twentieth Century. The Steam Railmotor was their solution to this, and such was their success in that patronage rapidly outgrew the capacity available. Several batches were built, and by 1905 there were around 50 in service with around 100 built when production was complete in 1908. By the mid-1920s most Railmotors were converted into auto-trailers to allow longer trains to operate in conjunction with a more powerful steam locomotive.
Our Exclusive tooling allows for both the Diagram ‘O’ type and the Diagram ‘R’ type Steam Railmotors. The diagram O type most obvious differences from the diagram ‘R’ are the larger boiler room windows, double leaf passenger doors, and ‘Fishbelly’ rather than ‘Equalising’ bogies.
The highly detailed GWR Steam Railmotor model has a full representation of the steam power bogie with vertical boiler in which a powerful coreless motor is discreetly mounted. The fully detailed and decorated interior is illuminated by the working interior lights and the Railmotors also have working oil lamps at each end showing either a white or red light depending on direction of travel. The DCC ready models have a PluX22 decoder socket. 
The KMRC Exclusive sound project has been produced in association with YouChoos and combines a dedicated sound file with a Zimo MS series PluX22 decoder. In addition to the sounds recorded from the preserved No. 93 GWR Steam Railmotor the sound file exclusively includes a range of station destination announcements matching the various alternative destination boards that will be supplied with each model that are chosen to align with the allocation of the specific Railmotor during the period for its livery. 
The GWR Steam Railmotors are £199.99 for each DCC Ready or £299.99 for the DCC Sound Fitted version, details of the three new livery versions with different running numbers to the first batch, and a change to the GWR garter crest on the full GWR lined versions, due early 2027, are below:
K2306 GWR Steam Railmotor Diagram 'O' No 62 GWR Chocolate & Cream Full lining and garter crest.
K2306SF GWR Steam Railmotor Diagram 'O' No 62 GWR Chocolate & Cream Full lining and garter crest – DCC Sound Fitted
K2307 GWR Steam Railmotor Diagram 'R' No. 98 GWR Lined Crimson Lake.
K2307SF GWR Steam Railmotor Diagram 'R' No. 98 GWR Lined Crimson Lake – DCC Fitted
K2308 GWR Steam Railmotor Diagram 'R' No. 40 Simplified GWR Chocolate & Cream.
K2308ASF GWR Steam Railmotor Diagram 'R' No. 40 Simplified GWR Chocolate & Cream – DCC Sound Fitted
Graham Muspratt, Development Manager advised: “Despite having an order book open for a long time and producing a large quantity for stock, our Exclusive GWR Steam Railmotors sold out in record time, with this new production run we hope that anyone who missed out the first time are now able to obtain one and or those wishing to add a second model can do so due to the new running numbers.”
Subject to alteration.
