MarkSG Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 6 hours ago, gwrrob said: I think stuff will be coming thick and fast from several manufacturers over the next few months. That's not entirely good for my credit card! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted May 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2023 Any update on the release of these @RapidoCorbs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapido staff rapidoandy Posted May 13, 2023 Author Rapido staff Share Posted May 13, 2023 Well on the way - somewhere near Italy at the moment but it’s a slow boat so I’m expecting a delivery in late June. 2 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 8, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2023 On 13/05/2023 at 12:33, rapidoandy said: so I’m expecting a delivery in late June. Imminent.😉 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2023 On 08/06/2023 at 14:48, gwrrob said: Imminent.😉 In stock at some retailers. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted June 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2023 26 minutes ago, gwrrob said: In stock at some retailers. Home from my holiday and my Hatton's trunk has been evacuated as one of my first tasks. Two Siphons, two brake vans and four 8-planks, the thick end of three hundred quid and nary a motor between them! No complaint over the cost from me, though, I can hardly keep my anticipation under control... John 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 4 hours ago, Dunsignalling said: Home from my holiday and my Hatton's trunk has been evacuated as one of my first tasks. Well, my Hattons trunk has just acquired a diag D1379 in BR grey. But I won't be evacuting it yet as I have five more items waiting to enter it, and I'll leave it until it also contains at least a couple of the other the single wagons I've got on order (Dapol and Rapido) or the Titfield Thunderbolt train pack, whichever comes first. I'll also try to time the release for when I can be at home to take delivery while my wife is out 🙂 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted June 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2023 Mine arrived this morning... Along with a couple of GWR 4 planks.. :) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2023 2 hours ago, sjrixon said: Mine arrived this morning... Any photos then @sjrixon 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted June 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2023 Just a couple.. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 I received 3 of the new Rapido 8 planks yesterday. First up is 30004 which is preserved on the Bluebell railway. And what better way than to have her running behind Bluebell with other Rapido wagons that are based on preserved prototypes (SECR 7 plank, 2 plank, van and 6w brake van). 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 The other two 8 planks were BR ones. Again a batch of photos showing these by themselves and on a BR train where the only item that is not Rapido is the loco, an O1.... All other wagons being former SECR stock made by Rapido. These 2 8-Planks show differences between the 9'6 and 10' wheelbases of the respective prototypes. Over the past few years, I have been gradually replacing old Mainline and Airfix mineral wagons with new stock (admittedly the old ones act as a reserve just in case I want to do a really big train... but I digress), and the Rapido ones allow me to add a more southern feel to that train. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted June 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2023 Many thanks to Rapido for making these vehicles - they look very good and run even better! They feel as though they are sturdy enough to withstand the occasional accidental drop or knock but still retain very good detail. I have four examples in a mix of diagrams and running numbers. Brian 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 22, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2023 A review of these by @AY Mod will be in the August BRM issue. Meanwhile my two post war versions have been weathered by @toboldlygo 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kevin Johnson Posted June 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 23, 2023 Rob thanks for sharing, James has done a lovely job on the weathering.👍 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2023 On 22/06/2023 at 14:44, gwrrob said: A review of these by @AY Mod will be in the August BRM issue. Meanwhile my two post war versions have been weathered by @toboldlygo Following a discussion with @BenL a fellow post war modeller , 31364 has now been upgraded to 13T. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted July 25, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2023 Any suggestions, again, on suitable loads other than coal for these wagons . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 25, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2023 8 minutes ago, gwrrob said: Any suggestions, again, on suitable loads other than coal for these wagons . General merchandise, sheeted. Hay or straw, sheeted. Timber - sawn or planed boards - sticking out over the end but again, sheeted. You want to get some suitable sheets! (They were common user, so they don't need to be SECR / SR ones.) Bricks, not sheeted, but not loaded anywhere near to the top, owing to the density of the load. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) .... crates of 'stuff' & 'things', other minerals ( again, not full if dense ) but NOT tarred stone as superannuated wagons were kept for that ! Edited July 25, 2023 by Wickham Green too 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted July 25, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: General merchandise, sheeted. Hay or straw, sheeted. Timber - sawn or planed boards - sticking out over the end but again, sheeted. You want to get some suitable sheets! (They were common user, so they don't need to be SECR / SR ones.) Bricks, not sheeted, but not loaded anywhere near to the top, owing to the density of the load. Same goes for coal; although the stuff did vary in density, I'll not be making the load for the one I'm adding to my coal rake any higher than the top of the drop-flap. These wagons were of considerably larger internal volume than a 16t steel mineral, but only of 12/13t carrying capacity. John 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted July 25, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2023 2 hours ago, gwrrob said: Any suggestions, again, on suitable loads other than coal for these wagons . Sugar beet? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted July 26, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 26, 2023 Cable drums, liquids (various) in barrels or steel drums (or empty, either new or for refilling) empty barrels sometimes being loaded differently from full ones). Anything you can imagine (and a few things you might not) in boxes, crates or sheeted over. Stuff in sacks, usually sheeted, but very occasionally not if the contents were not vulnerable to weather damage or pilfering. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 26, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 26, 2023 Some bedtime reading: http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/BRBDocuments/Booklet_BR20424_Issue.pdf http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/BRBDocuments/Booklet_BR20425_Issue.pdf http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/BRBDocuments/Booklet_BR20426_Issue.pdf Credit to the Barrowmore Model Railway Group for making this material available. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 13 hours ago, TrevorP1 said: Sugar beet? And if you want to know what a delivery of sugar beet looks like.... https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/_QGam6rXXLhZCg?childassetid=IQEQ5M9oSuIlsw&ms={"x"%3A0.5%2C"y"%3A0.5%2C"z"%3A9%2C"size"%3A{"width"%3A1.7303523035230353%2C"height"%3A1.119005328596803}} 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 Incidentally, if anyone's wondering what's happening in the above photo, the beets are being unloaded by means of water poured into the wagon from above, which then flows out of the open side door and into a channel alongside the track, carrying the beets with it. Sugar beets float, so this was a quick and simple means of getting them from the wagon into the factory. The photo was taken at the then state-of-the-art BSC sugar factory at Cantley, Norfolk. The factory is alongside the River Yare, so there was a ready supply of water for the beet-washers (and the other main source of inbound beet would have been by barge). There are three wagons visible in the photo. The nearest, with "N E" markings, is yet to be unloaded. The centre wagon, marked "L _ S" (presumably LMS) is being unloaded, and then beyond it is a now empty wagon, on which only a single letter R is visible, albeit very faded. So you've got three out of four of the Big Four represented in a single photo taken in the northeast corner of East Anglia - a very good visual illustration of the effects of the common pool. 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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