Rapido 917001 Loriot Y Machinery Wagon No. 41989 GWR, OO Gauge
by Rapido
Save £4.00
Original price
£39.95
Current price
£35.95
SKU 917001
Rapido Trains UK is to produce
one of Britain’s most enigmatic
railway wagons, an inadvertent
film star whose history still remains a little cloudy.
The GWR allocated the code
‘Loriot’ to flat wagons designed
to move earth moving and plant
machinery. It built a new one in
1937 to Diagram G39 and coded
Rapido Trains UK launches new Great Western
Railway flat wagon.
GWR Dia. G39 ‘Loriot Y’
‘Loriot Y’ and a second in 1939.
No. 41989 found fame when it
starred in The Titfield Thunderbolt,
where it was pressed into service
to carry Dan’s house. It is believed
to have been scrapped not long
after the filming in 1953.
Sister ‘Loriot Y’ No. 41990 fared
better. It remained in revenue-earning service until at least
1990 at Radyr Engineers Yard.
Eventually, as DW41990 (coded ‘ZXP’ on TOPS), it moved
to Bescot from where it was
condemned in 1994. Saved at
the 11th hour, it moved to the
Severn Valley Railway where it
remains to this day.
Rapido Trains UK, Unit 3, Clinton Business Centre, Lodge Road,
Staplehurst, Kent TN12 0QFTel: 03304 609496
E-mail: retailers@rapidotrains.co.uk
‘OO’
GAUGE
• High level of detail above and below the floor line
• Disc wheels running in metal bearings
• Additional tie-down points
• NEM coupler pockets
• Lots of separately fitted parts and fine detail