Rapido’s ‘Titfield’ tramcar CAD is revealed

AN exciting time for fans of the Titfield Thunderbolt and modellers of the Wisbech and Upwell tramway as Rapido showed off the 3D rendering of its carriage that forms part of the planned train pack of the aforementioned film’s stars.

Nos. 7 and 8 were a pair built for the W&UT in 1884, their distinctive looks a result of regulations that governed the roadside railway.

Accounts as to which vehicle it was that starred in the hit Ealing Studios film vary, but one has been preserved at the North Norfolk Railway where it has been fully restored. The Rapido CADs show the bar area inside the model clearly and as it appeared in the beloved film, but Rapido has teased that it intends to produce non-Titfield versions of the coach and its scrapped sister in GER, LNER, and BR guises, with further information to come in the near future.

It has also advised that the previously planned tramcar and toad rolling stock pack SKU922003 has been modified as it has been discovered that the second of the two toad brake vans used in the film (which was to be included in the pack) is of a different design to that which Rapido is modelling, so it will be just the Buffet car included.

Tooling for the coach is already underway, with all products from this line due in stock by 2023, the 70th anniversary year of the movie’s release.