Description
William Stroudley designed the D1 0-4-2T to handle the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway's fast-growing London suburban traffic, which the famous 'Terriers' could no longer cope with. 125 were built between 1873 and 1887, most at Brighton Works and 35 by Neilson & Co. Known to crews as the 'D-Tank', the class combined good acceleration, economy and smooth running, and could be put to almost any job.
The Southern Railway inherited 111 at the Grouping and fitted many with push-pull equipment, spreading them across its whole network. Twenty reached BR ownership, but all had gone by the early 1950s. The last survivor worked on Lancashire County Council's Whittingham Hospital Railway until 1956. None were preserved.
Rapido Trains UK's OO gauge D1 is built in diecast metal and plastic with metal running boards, and has lots of separately fitted, era-specific details. Boilers, smokeboxes, chimneys, domes, safety valves, whistles, brake blocks, Westinghouse pumps and push-pull gear all change to suit each version. It has all-wheel pickups, a MoPower stay-alive, sprung buffers, front and rear NEM 362 coupler pockets and a factory-fitted speaker.
This version: No. 1 'James Fryars' in Whittingham Hospital Railway Lined Olive Green.
Features include:
• Marsh boiler
• Tank-mounted lubricators
• Flush-riveted smokebox
• Marsh smokebox door
• Marsh chimney
• Ramsbottom safety valves
• High-mounted injector
• Cab roof-mounted whistle
• Standard handrails
• Southern Railway clack valves
• Iron brake blocks
• Externally mounted sandpipes
• Late Westinghouse pump
• Tablet holders
• Valve handles on cab side
• Plain bufferbeam
• Ejector pipes
• Concave-ended air reservoir
• Next18 DCC decoder socket
• All-wheel drive
• Museum quality paint finish
• MoPower stay-alive
• Diecast metal and plastic construction
• Smooth & powerful mechanism
• Highly detailed
• NEM 362 coupler pockets front and rear
• 1:76 scale, (OO gauge)
DCC: DCC Ready with a Next18 decoder socket, MoPower stay-alive and a factory-fitted speaker. Firebox flicker with a dynamic fire-draw effect works once a DCC decoder is fitted.
Pre-order now. Expected release: TBC (the model is currently in tooling). Images are pre-production renders and the design may change before release.
