Rapido Trains UK announce RCH 1907 Private Owner Salt Van in OO gauge

Contributed by: Graham Muspratt

27 Jun 2025 00:00am

Rapido Trains UK announce RCH 1907 Private Owner Salt Van in OO gauge.

The RCH had implemented wagon design standards that railway companies and wagon builders had to adhere to if they wanted to be a member of their scheme. The 1907 variant used common underframe components across many different body styles and types, including salt wagons. Salt is well known for speeding up the effects of rust, so many of these salt vans had wooden underframes.
Surviving from the pre-grouping era, these wagons even managed to avoid the wagon pooling of WW2 and remained in their bright colours right through to the days of the Nationalisation of the railways, despite the majority of other rolling stock receiving a grey or brown livery.
The transport of salt by rail declined in the 1950s, and the last of the RCH 1907 Private Owner Salt Vans disappeared at some point in the 1960s, by which point BR were using their own fleet of box vans and other wagons to move the salt.
The new Rapido Trains UK OO Gauge RCH 1907 Private Owner Salt Van Wagons will have the usual wealth of full external and underframe detail and feature numerous tooling variants.
Detail differences within the range include ribbed or smooth-tapered buffers and single or double-sided brakes. There are then 5 axle box variants within the range; these are square, rounded, Ellis grease, Oil 116, or RCH split oil designs.

Fifteen different versions are being produced of the Ammonium Nitrate/ Chemical Tank Wagons per the image above, and can be pre ordered here>>>

Subject to alteration.

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