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Rapido OO Gauge LNWR D88 Van - LNWR No 12655 Scale Model Railway Wagon 945002

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Expected release date is 29th Sep 2024

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Rapido Trains UK is proud to announce our first LNWR wagon, the OO
Gauge LNWR D88 Covered Van.
In 1908 the LNWR introduced a new covered goods van – the Diagram
88. This design became the LNWR standard van design from their
introduction right up until the grouping with over 6000 examples
constructed.
The van’s lineage can be traced back to earlier diagrams and was in
essence an updated version of the D87 vans that preceded it. In 1904
the Goods Conference decreed that new covered vans should be built to
certain dimensions, including a length of 21’ over buffers, an 8ft width, a
wheelbase of 9’9” and be able to carry 8 tons. The D88 vans
incorporated all these features but were uprated to carry 10 tons. This
was an improvement over the 19’ long 9’ wheelbase vans that formed
D87.
Like previous LNWR vans, the D88 incorporated a set of 5ft wide
horizontally-planked cupboard doors with a fall door below making
access into platforms and goods loading facilities easier. Under LMS
ownership, the doors were often replaced by vertically-planked
alternatives.
Many of the vans were built at the LNWRs Earlestown works, however,
a number were also built by outside contractors. During the building
 
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process, a number of changes were seen including the use of several
different buffer designs, different styles of headstocks, as-built wooden
and later 1910-style iron roofs, flat fronted and bulbous axle boxes, and
both split spoke and plain spoked wheelsets. Various batches of the
wagons were unfitted, through-piped or fitted with vacuum brakes.
The wagons had a long service life with large numbers surviving into
British Railways ownership and lasting into the early 1960s. Many were
also pressed into Departmental service in various locations, whilst others
were sold off into private use, which included the Army and Navy.
Several vehicles have been preserved including at the National Railway
Museum, Severn Valley Railway and Chatham’s Historic Dockyard.
The Rapido Trains UK D88 van has been designed using a combination
of archival materials, works drawings, and an onsite survey at Chatham.
We would like to thank everyone at The Historic Dockyard Chatham for
giving us access to their D88 wagon.
Modellers can look forward to a plethora of variations within the range,
including alternate designs representing wooden or iron roofs, square or
incurved headstocks, 1-rib, 2-rib or 3-bolt buffers, unfitted or through-
piped, cupboard doors with both horizontal and vertical planking, flat and
bulbous axle boxes, split-spoke or solid wheels in brass bearings for
smooth, and free running and NEM coupling mounts. These will be
finished in a variety of liveries covering the wagon's lengthy history.
We have already received the engineering prototypes from our factory
and are extremely pleased with the progress made so far.
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