RapidoCorbs

As an addition to this Great War-era WD wagon duo, the upcoming 7-plank PO wagon range also features a WD wagon.

https://rapidotrains.co.uk/product/wd-no-81797/

This is 81797, one of a huge number of wagons produced for the war effort.

This wagon was featured in a photo of railway guns being shipped across the channel so may be a good accompaniment to anyone who has the appropriate artillery...

yep

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

@rapidoandy, you mentioned that one of the biggest costs is assembly. Has self assembly by the purchaser been considered? or is that not viable.

Bear in mind that the factories are under no obligation to take on work that we propose to them, and they are understandably reluctant to make products that don't give their teams work. So if you cut out the assembly phase, there is no work for those people.

This came up when discussing complete-knock-down (CKD) stock. 

Interestingly someone asked the exact same question earlier this week via another medium, it's a 5 pole motor in this loco.

We didn't scan the Jones Goods, we used the works drawings ;)

From memory we've only scanned 2 or 3 UK projects and one of them was a bus...

Command wants you to ID these two locomotives based on their differences. D-Day is imminent. Stand by for further instructions.

A good example of how filthy they got!

Working on the design of the internals at the moment and making sure we can cram it all in - there's not a great deal of space in one of these! At least the Bagnalls were a fairly squat shape....

I think we have all that info somewhere, team time is the issue (not time team, which doesn't come under our remit).

Likely Q4. We have requested some revisions to the decoration/design.

I am told the parts have been injected and are heading into the spray shop.

9 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Excellent list, emphasising that despite Rapido having carefully researched their wagons, they have been not much more particular about applying appropriate liveries than the bad big boys. 

 

Ouch :(

We thought we had put a lot of time and effort into trying to get a selection of regions, owners and colours balanced against an as-close-as-possible tooling suite (29 different part combinations in the range). We've tried to be up front that there are some compromises (e.g. body length within limits, strapping details, small differences between builders) and we did not want it to seem as though we just slapped any old livery on any generic wagon.

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Pallet after pallet was wheeled into our warehouse this week, which can only mean one thing: The RCH 1907 PO Wagons have arrived! 
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We have some good goods news! The EWS livery variants of the OO Gauge OAAs have arrived and are ready to be shipped. If you have pre-ordered through our website, keep an eye on your emails.

1 hour ago, RCP said:

@RapidoCorbs I’ve just got a pair of O21. The literature indicates there should be a bag with door bangs in. But I can’t see any. Is this correct or should I go back to the retailer?

Sorry - that was our mistake. We could not make the door bangs but the instructions had already been printed and the error was not spotted until too late.

On 22/03/2024 at 18:12, 57xx said:

 

They will still work. I can run the short couplings round the (roughly) R2 curves on my test track without any issues. Order a pack of Bachmann 36-061 and try them out. 🙂

To explain - Not all of the couplings on our products are mounted in the same place. Some vehicles (not these GWR ones) have the 'long' coupling but mounted further back, so we want to make sure that replacing our standard coupling with a shorter one won't cause problems if we have to do a repair such as replacing a coupling.

12 hours ago, 57xx said:

 

If you make the coupler part the same dimensions as the Bachmann short straight, I can't see why they wouldn't be compatible. The tails slot into the NEM pockets on the wagon just fine and give a much better distance between stock. Source: I tried it on my Iron Mink.

Compatible in that if we end up with a stock of spares of the shorter ones, they will still work on wagons that use the longer coupling without causing issues e.g. if we have to do a replacement coupling as part of a repair. 

4 hours ago, Penrhos1920 said:

 

 Didn’t they have the buffers packed out a couple of inches because the screw couplings are longer?   Other wagons that were fitted with screw couplings during the first world war for working in France definitely did. 

Unsure, the article in GWJ did not mention buffer packing (nor is it mentioned in ABT's book) and the drawing N°55537 (V17 van) does not show buffer packing.

V17s being V16s fitted with screw couplings for working in France/Belgium. Although the couplings are not modelled, the van is painted as a V17 - converted back to V16 or X6 (later Y4) post-war.

2 hours ago, 40052 said:

Is there any update on delivery of the EWS maroon version?

We had an update from the factory - currently in assembly/painting stage.

On 16/03/2024 at 21:43, BenL said:

What would really help would be to model the coupling on the Bachmann short straight example, which has a shorter ‘base’ behind the fitting for the coupling hook.

 

Fitting the Bachmann version does help noticeably reduce the gap and I swap these in on all my Rapido wagons, but this isn’t cheap! 

Yes we are doing that as well, but bear in mind that what is coming out now was designed over a year ago, sometimes more.

We also have to make sure our spare parts in the warranty department will work with both the new and old stock.

It's a tooling compromise.