Rapido Trains UK have revealed decorated samples for their newly tooled range of GWR B-Set Coaches in OO Gauge!
This all new range fills a gap for Great Western Railway fans, reproducing these popular vehicles for the first time in highly detailed ready-to-run form. A large range of models are to be produced and supplied as twin packs, in a selection of GWR and BR colour schemes.
All of these models are currently on track for release during Q4 2024 and you can pre-order yours below! The order book deadline has now closed so products may be in danger of selling out on pre-order - so we recommend you order yours now to avoid missing out.
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Product Features
Designed in the UK using original works drawings
Fully detailed and painted interior - including picture frames, luggage racks, guards' compartment and more
Lots of separately-fitted detail
Working lights
Complete underbody detailing with many separate parts
NEM coupler pockets
Only available in twin-packs
Prototype Information
One of the classic Great Western Railway branch trains was a pair of non-corridor Brake Composites - known as ‘B-Sets’ - hauled by a ‘Small Prairie’ 2-6-2T.
The first iteration of ‘B-set’ coaches was delivered in 1924 under diagram E116. However, it wasn’t until 1930 when the largest diagram – E140 – were delivered.
These vehicles each sported a guard’s compartment, a single First Class compartment and five Third Class compartments. The coaches were close coupled in a fixed formation with the brake compartments on the outer ends.
These coaches were longer and wider than previous designs and necessitated recessed door handles and Guards doors. They ran on 7ft wheelbase bogies. A total of 41 Dia. E140 sets of coaches were built.
Primarily allocated to the Bristol Division, Dia. E140s could be found further afield, from Cardiff and Taunton to Birmingham and Worcester... not to mention those classic Cornish branchlines so beloved by modellers!
As many of these coaches ran specific routes, they often received set markings for the location on the ends adjacent to the brake compartments.