04 July 2025
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This exclusive model has been designed in collaboration with Rapido and is expected to arrive in September.
World of Railways is excited to reveal that the decorated samples of its exclusive NCB Port of Par Tank locomotive have arrived.
Sporting the striking Oxford blue National Coal Board livery with white lining and lettering and red connecting rods using the same welded tank style as the 1953 built locomotive, the new model features a highly-detailed cab interior, posable rear cab shutters, a die-cast metal running plate, sprung buffers and bufferbeam inserts with scale couplings as an optional fit.
As the NCB lettering has been kept to the cabside bunkers, the design is suitable and ideal for modellers to customise with space on the saddle tank sides to add nameplates of choice from third-party suppliers.
Featuring a coreless motor and flywheel running from plunger pickups, geared for slow running with a factory-fitted speaker for sound. For the DCC sound model, ESU has been working with Rapido and it will be fitted with an ESU Nano chip and a bespoke electronic setup to help with smooth running on DCC.
An ideal partner for the previously announced NCB 7-plank internal user wagons from Rapido, the model is available in both DCC-ready and DCC-sound forms, priced at £139.95 and £249.95 plus postage respectively and can be pre-ordered today for a £30 deposit.
About the locomotive
Designed and manufactured by W.G.Bagnall of Stafford for the Port of Par railway, this diminutive and distinctive design of 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive will give OO modellers something very different for their scenes, with a locomotive type used where restricted headroom is available due to bridges and other structures and suitable for tight curvature.
While two locomotives were built for the Port of Par in 1937 and 1953 Bagnalls, as an industrial locomotive builder, manufactured products, both standard and narrow gauge, for an impressive number of private railways as well as the national railways from their Castle Engine Works with a design catalogue that customers could choose to purchase from with the ability to adapt standard designs to specific needs.
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