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Dimensions - Length 242mm.
Separate hand rails, high detail
>Dimensions - Length 242mm.
A detailed model of the GWR style auto trailer coaches built by British Railways for use with class 14xx, 64xx and 4575 locomotives in push-pull trains.
The models' detailed underframe includes suspended steps and representation of front end cab control apparatus along with a host of features such as bogies fitted with all axle phosphor bronze (low friction) bearings. The bodyshell features a detailed passenger interior and roof detail includes individually fitted GWR style shell vents. To cap off these great models, we have incorporated prototypical length buffers and buffer beam detailing accessories. Model painted in the BR lined maroon livery which was used from 1957. Era 5 1957-1966.
Second class coaches formed the backbone of the passenger carriage fleet. The use of open plan seating allowed all passengers to be seated at a table, plus provided seats for more passengers with less weight when compared to traditional side-corridor coaches.Fitted with seated passenger figures
Nearly 1,000 Passenger Luggage Vans (PLV) broadly to the same Southern Railway design were built for use in passenger trains and at express speeds to convey parcels, newspapers and various other forms or general merchandise. The design was adopted from the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR) and construction continued after Nationalisation until 1951 – by which time BR had redesignated the vans as Parcels and Miscellaneous Vans (PMV). These were large vehicles with a 21ft wheelbase and construction was from a metal frame with even planking on the sides and ends. The vans remained in traffic until the mid-1980s, with some surviving later still, in departmental use with BR and into Privatisation.
New tooling has been developed to enable models of the Brake Second Open (BSO) to be offered as part of the flagship Bachmann Branchline Mk1 Coach range for the first time. These brand new models feature all the hallmarks of the Branchline Mk1, and offer era-appropriate details, such as the presence of end steps and the inclusion of roof periscopes. Bogies are now fitted with integrated metal wheel bearings and electrical pickups to aid those wishing to add features to their models which may require power.
New tooling has been developed to enable models of the Restaurant Buffets (RB) to be offered as part of the flagship Bachmann Branchline Mk1 Coach range for the first time. These brand new models feature all the hallmarks of the Branchline Mk1, and offer era-appropriate details, such as the presence of end steps. Bogies are now fitted with integrated metal wheel bearings and electrical pickups to aid those wishing to add features to their models which may require power.
While train travel may have become more standardised in the BR era, this did not dampen the majesty of a steam hauled service. This set includes the 4-6-2 LNER A4 locomotive, the fastest steam locomotive in the world as it could be seen in BR days, without perhaps its most iconic colour scheme but with some very complimentary BR Maroon Mark 1 coaches.
This set contains a starter oval of track and a siding providing a good size layout for you to get started. This included circuit can be expanded with our easy to add track extension packs.
All of these coaches are Era 5 models. This era covers the interesting transition from steam to diesel locomotives between 1957 and 1968. British Railways mark 1 coaches predominated on express services with the later pre-nationalisation company designs on secondary services and the first of the new mark 2 coach desgn entering service before the corporate blue and grey livery appeared.Details of the periods covered by the era numbers can be found here.
In 1957 British Railways changed the principal paint scheme for passenger coaches to lined maroon, similar to the former Midland/LMS livery. At the same time each region was authorised to reintroduce named expresses and paint coaches in special liveries for these trains. Great Western chocolate and cream quickly reappeared, while the Southern rapidly repainted coaches into green, matching the EMU stock. After testing the scheme in 1964 BR adopted a corporate livery of blue and grey, though the maroon and regional painted vehicles survived in service for several years. However the use of Mk.1 coaches on heritage railways has seen many hundreds of these coaches repainted in Era 5 liveries, including coaches in service today for mainline tour and charter trains.