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I filmed this little segment and put it on my own channel in case it's helpful. If it feels like it's not moving, try adjusting your grip or doing it from the other side. The force required is not much at all.

In the refrigerated hold of course, then once unloaded they will be heated in transit.

On the ship! (somewhere)

The buffer heads and the 'lip' of the housing plugs into the hole in the rest of the housing (moulded as part of the chassis).

Pre-order is now available from us or any of our retailers https://rapidotrains.co.uk/caledonia-fireless-0-4-0/ DC/Silent £139.95 DCC Sound-Fitted £249.95 3D-printed samples showing 2 tooling variations We love steam locos at Rapido, and most of them follow similar design principles. The Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 fireless well and truly takes the design rulebook and throws it out the window. As the railways established themselves as a reliable method to transport goods one problem came to the forefront – fire. Steam locos fundamentally need a heat source created from some form of fire to turn water into steam. However, this fire, alongside sparks emitted from the chimney, caused great concern in environments where munitions, fuel or other flammable materials were being moved or stored. The solution is a locomotive that won't spark, or have a naked flame on board. Thankfully, some bright spark had the clever idea of harnessing steam power in a large rechargeable steam reservoir, which would sit in the place of the boiler of a conventional steam locomotive. This reservoir would be filled with a mix of boiling water and steam at high pressure. As the locomotive was used the steam would be used and thus the pressure in the reservoir would drop. This in turn allowed the water to start to boil replacing the steam that had been used. With this method a locomotive could work for about 4 hours prior to recharging. The result is a design that has a distinct lack of key features which people associate with more traditional steam locomotives, such as a smokebox and chimney, a firebox, forward-mounted cylinders and coal bunkers or tenders. Its lack of a firebox requires its cylinders to be rear-mounted both to improve efficiency and redistribute the weight of the loco, and its other missing features are simply because they are surplus to requirement. Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 fireless 'MP1' (Works No.1944 built in 1927) in 1979 © Gordon Edgar collection - with thanks. The largest number of British-built fireless locomotives were constructed by Andrew Barclay & Co. Ltd, and an impressive 114 were built between 1913 and 1961 of varying designs, so it was only fitting that we pick the most numerous of Barclay’s prototypes, the ‘Caledonia’, to produce as the very first Ready-to-run OO Gauge British Fireless loco. These industrial oddities survived far longer than most British Railways and industrial coal-fired steam locos with many examples working into the 1980s and even into the 1990s with many examples later preserved around the country. Full details and pre-ordering will be available from 16th Feb 2024.

It should be for 1960 and 61 as the photo references we have used have been narrowed down to between 1960 and 1967.

Hi Fred, how do you mean? Every wagon comes with 4 wheels as a load as it was felt to be the thing that was the least era-specific we could do.

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A heads-up to OO modellers - if you want to guarantee a pre-order for our upcoming LOWMAC wagon, get your order in before Monday 12th February. This brand-new model comes in a variety of liveries covering LNER, LMS, BR service stock and engineers, including some seen in preservation. Every wagon includes a load of 4 wheelsets with prototypical axle ends to be used as a load or a scenic item on your layout. See more here: https://rapidotrains.co.uk/lner-lms-25t-machine-wagon/

It's all dependent on how well the samples behave and whether there are adjustment to make so not possible to make promises that we might have to break if there is a hold-up. Hope that's understandable. We'll definitely give a heads-up on when the order book is closing though.

We can't because they are on the chassis mould which is from the O11. The only way this and the N19 are viable is because they share the chassis from the previous run.

Are you asking if I can make an announcement of an announcement? 😉 We need to see working samples before we can close the order book. Once it's closed it's likely around 9 months to produce and deliver it.

Awwwww yisssss

Should be soon!

The UK company was started in 2018 :)

We need to change the number - likely 294. Unfortunately the article we were referencing had an error in it and someone has flagged this to us. Excellent reference you have there!

4 generations of liveries on our upcoming GWR V14 and V16 vans. From the top we have 25", then 16" GW lettering, post-'36 and post-'42 GW, followed by BR unfitted freight grey and vacuum-braked bauxite livery. These colour samples hopefully give a taste of what's to come as the wagons are currently being shipped to the UK.

All the ones in our warehouse will have been dealt with - there should be a small round sticker on the box to denote it has had the PCB replaced.

The one in that book is an interesting one as it's from the earlier batch but has the self-contained buffers and short springs from the late batch.

It's a mystery.

This is just a load test really. On the flat oval test track we've had it pulling somewhere in the region of 30 Rapido wagons. The EP in the video is running on DC, I don't think it has the PCB installed and is just hardwired to the motor. Lots of testing is ongoing....

There's a knack to getting the body off, I struggled to begin with but once I had the method it was a lot easier. It's hard to explain in text form but you need to apply sideways pressure to the body as well as upwards.

We don't tend to take a sales stand to shows, it's a lot of work and there are often retailers selling stuff. We are primarily a manufacturer.