GWR Steam Railmotor Diagram R number 40 in GWR Simplified Chocolate and Cream livery late 1920s onwards
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K2308SF GWR Steam Railmotor Diagram R number 40 in GWR Simplified Chocolate and Cream livery - late 1920s onwards.
New release - expected 3rd Quarter 2027 - pre-orders invited
Exclusive to Kernow Model Rail Centre - Image is of previous release and will be updated dreckly.
DCC Sound Fitted
The KMRC Exclusive sound project has been produced in association with YouChoos and combines a dedicated sound file with a Zimo MS series 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.
DCC Sound on DC Information
The Railmotor sound project will produce all automatic sounds on DC the same as under DCC – this includes chuffs, start-off release, come-to-halt sounds, and certain random sounds. As with any sound decoder running under DC, the decoder kicks into life above a threshold voltage – somewhere between 5V and 9V, so you will be running the railmotor in the top part of your throttle’s voltage range, but otherwise is quite controllable.
History
The Great Western Railway wanted a cost-effective way to improve local passenger services at the start of the Twentieth Century in response to the threat from urban tramways. The Railmotor was their solution to this and such was their success in many areas 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. A number of trailers were also built in response to the success of the Railmotors to increase their capacity. By the mid 1920s most Railmotors had been converted to auto-trailers to allow longer trains to operate in conjunction with a more powerful steam locomotive.
Operational details and preservation
Used throughout the Great Western Railway from Cornwall to the London suburbs, number 93 is preserved by the Great Western Society at Didcot and has made many visits around the country, most notably to work on the Looe branch in Cornwall and the Brentford branch in London. The prototype was laser scanned at Didcot to ensure an accurate rendition of the body shapes and details.
The model features:
- Fully detailed body and underframe with many separate and etched parts and wire handrails
- Sprung buffers with metal heads
- Working directional oil lamps
- Working interior lighting
- All wheel pickup
- Coreless motor mounted vertically within a scale die cast metal representation of the vertical boiler
- Accurate working valve gear including piston valve rod movement
- Strong haulage capacity (well over that of the prototype)
- DCC ready with a PluX-22 decoder socket or DCC Sound Fitted options available
- Factory fitted 25mmm speaker within luggage compartment
The KMRC tooling allows for both the Diagram ‘O’ type and the Diagram ‘R’ type Steam Railmotors to be produced. 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.
For more information read our KMRC Fogella (Product Focus) page about the GWR Steam Railmotor here
