Product Description

Rapido 973008 GER Dia.48 7 Plank Wagon BR No.E603304

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The Great Eastern Railway operated a vast network of lines serving Northeast London’s densely populated suburbs and East Anglia’s agrarian market towns, villages, coastal resorts and ports. General merchandise traffic dominated the company’s goods receipts and further grew in importance during the 1890s, while mineral traffic maintained a steady growth. This area of the country was devoid of heavy industry and mines, so the company imported coal mainly from Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire collieries.

In early 1903 while wagons of the final order of Diagram 17 were under construction, the GER was busy preparing a new 7-plank design with both an increased carrying capacity and an improved load retention for low-weight but high-volume goods. Within two months a prototype of the new 7-plank design had been completed by converting an existing 5-plank Diagram 17 wagon originally built in 1898.

Specifications:-

• GER Dia.48 7-plank open wagon
• BR grey No. E603304
• Low diagonal braces
• Morton 3-shoe brakes with open ratchet (U safety loops)
• Monarch door mechanism
• Ribbed buffer housings
• LNER B1 axleboxes
• GER split-spoke wheels running in metal bearings
• High level of detail above and below the floor line
• High quality livery application
• NEM coupler pockets
• 1:76 scale, (OO gauge)