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Rapido OO Gauge LNWR D88 Van – LNWR No 31132 Scale Model Railway Wagon 945003

Original price was: £32.95.Current price is: £23.07.

SKU: CMFPB 1705895289 Categories: OO Gauge, OO Wagons Tag: Rapido Trains UK

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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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