🚂 Rapido Trains OO Class E1 Locos Due Soon

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Rapido Trains UK's newly tooled range of LBSCR Class E1 0-6-0T steam locomotives are nearly here and are set to arrive in stock with us sometime early next week! (w/c Monday 23rd June 2025)


Everyone loves William Stroudley’s cheeky little A1s – forever known as ‘Terriers’ – so Rapido thought they'd offer its big sister, the E1. Each model features a die-cast metal construction, a high-quality motor and mechanism, a Next18 decoder socket, NEM coupler pockets, sprung buffers, firebox flicker for DCC users, and glow for those on DC.


All of these are now sold out at Rapido, so make sure to get your orders in now before they are gone for good!

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Product Features:

Highly detailed model with many separate parts including handrails, pipework, safety valve, whistle, dome, coal bunker and much more

Digital & Sound capable - 18-pin socket with pre-fitted speaker

Powerful mechanism

Sprung metal buffers

NEM tension lock couplings

Designed from original works drawings and a wealth of photographic material

Prototype Information

Image via Dan Adkins

Designed by William Stroudley, these useful and long-lived locomotives saw a lifespan of over 85 years across the LBSCR network, working a mixture of freight and secondary passenger duties. Although withdrawals started in 1908, thirty survived into BR service in 1948, with the last survivors allocated to shunting duties. Eight of the Class were rebuilt as 0-6-2T locomotives (classified E1/R) in the 1920s, and four were transferred to work on the Isle of Wight in 1932. One locomotive survives and is preserved on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.

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