Rapido Trains UK announce the Midland Railway 483 class 4-4-0 in OO Gauge.

Contributed by: Graham Muspratt

25 Sep 2024 00:00am

Rapido Trains UK have announced the Midland Railway 483 class 4-4-0 in OO Gauge.

The 483 Class were 'rebuilds' of the earlier Midland Railway Class 2, the ‘rebuilds’ received new frames, new larger driving wheels, new cylinders, and the newly developed ‘Belpaire’ G7S boiler, which were also fitted with Schmidt's superheaters. The first of these rebuilds rolled out of Derby Works in Feb 1912 as No.494. Further batches were then completed by the Midland in 1913, 1914, and 1922, the LMS then finished the job in 1924 having inherited the fleet as part of the grouping of the railways in the previous year. By this time, they had been assigned the power classification 2P.
The design for the 483 Class would go on to inspire a plethora of well-known LMS locos, such as the famous ‘Compounds’, becoming a key link between the evolving designs of the early pre-grouping era, and the later designs of the Big Four.
In 1913 two 483s ran trials on the S&DJR, and having proved their worth 5 locos were ‘rebuilt’ to bolster the S&DJR fleet.
Both the Midland and S&DJR 483s would work stoically alongside their 2P classmates under LMS ownership, right through the grouping era, and into the nationalisation of Britain's railways. 165 483s survived into BR ownership, which included the 5 S&DJR locos.

The Rapido Trains UK 483 Class will be available in liveries that cover the loco's lengthy history. Detail variations include representations of locos from earlier and later rebuild batches, as well as the alterations, additions, and subtractions of parts throughout their lives, including superheater dampers, chimneys, tablet catchers, domes, safety valves, rivet patterns, tender toolboxes, bogie brakes, exhaust injector and more.
The models will have a smooth-running mechanism, a factory-installed speaker, NEM Coupler pockets, an ESU 21-pin decoder socket, cosmetic inside motion, and firebox flicker with a dynamic fire draw effect.
The twelve liveries being produced are:

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