Rapido Trains UK announce brand new SECR/SR 5 and 7 plank wagons in 00

Contributed by: Graham Muspratt

28 May 2021 00:00am

Rapido Trains UK have announced their first 00 gauge ready to run South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) / Southern Railway wagons.  These new models cover the Diagram 1355 seven-plank open and both the Diagram 1347 and Diagram 1349 five-plank opens built by the South Eastern & Chatham Railway on the same Maunsell/Lyons steel underframe.

The 7 plank open, later SR Diagram 1355, were the SECR's most numerous wagon with 2,121 wagons built between 1915 and 1927. The SR later fitted a sheet rail. British Railways had over 70 wagons still in service  in the 1960s and the last withdrawals were not until the 1970s.

The 5 plank opens utilised the same steel chassis as the 7 plank wagons, 550 were built between 1920 and 1925 with standard buffers that became SR Diagram 1347. A further 150 were built 1921/2  with self contained buffers and became SR Diagram 1349. There were withdrawn in the early 1960s.

The model tooling allows for variations to be produced including the 7 plank open with or without sheet rails and the two different buffer styles on the 5 plank versions. They will include high levels of body and underframe detail, etched and metal parts, metal bearing cups and NEM coupler pockets.

The initial versions being produced are as follows:

Diagram 1355 7 plank open 
907001: No.12221, SECR Grey
907002: No.16194, SECR Grey
907003: No.14997, SR Brown (Pre-1936)
907004: No.16227, SR Brown (Pre-1936)
907005: No.28666, SR Brown (Post-1936)
907006: No.28860, SR Brown (Post-1936)
907007: No.S16510, SR Brown (with BR markings)
907008: No.S28951, SR Brown (with BR markings)
907009: No.S28662, BR Grey
9070010: No.S28942, BR Grey
9070011: No.DS28635, BR Gulf Red (S&T Dept)

Diagram 1347 5 plank open
906001: No.9601, SECR Grey
906002: No.12522, SECR Grey
906003: No.14131, SR Brown (Pre-1936)
906004: No.14632, SR Brown (Pre-1936)
906005: No.14283, SR Brown (Post-1936)
906006: No.19081, SR Brown (Post-1936)
906007: No.S14271, SR Brown (with BR markings)
906008: No.S19220, BR Grey
906009: No.S19228, BR Grey
906010: No.DS14157, Engineers Black

Diagram 1349 5 plank open
906011: No.10789, SECR Grey
906012: No.10660, SECR Grey
906013: No.14621, SR Brown (Pre-1936)
906014: No.14707, SR Brown (Pre-1936)
906015: No.14599, SR Brown (Post-1936)
906016: No.14678, SR Brown (Post-1936)
906017: No.S14590, SR Brown (with BR markings)
906018: No.S14571, BR Grey
906019: No.S14708, BR Grey

The new Rapido wagons are available view with livery artwork and to pre-order here at £28.95 each and the order book closes on September 1st 2021.

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