Southern Coaches & Wagons

As part of the development of the long wheelbase air braked wagons intended for fast goods trains a flat bed stake sided steel carrier wagon was produced. This proved ill-suited for many steel products, so following trials with a low-sided body 1,1000 SPA wagons were built. These have low, steel drop-door side bodies able to retain coiled products like rod/wire and featured floor bolsters suitable for loading and unloading by fork-lift truck.
As with many of the air-braked wagons there have been many subsequent modifications, both for revenue and departmental uses.

The Diagram 1410 van was the most numerous ventilated van built by the London & South Western Railway (LSWR). Construction began in 1885 and more than 1,000 were built, with various detail differences introduced over the lifetime of the vans. These characterful vehicles feature outside framing, sliding doors and were built with a reduced height when compared with vans built later on. An increase of 7 inches in the height of the van from 1912 resulted in a new Diagram (1406), and soon after another new design with hinged doors rather than sliding – allowing the van body to be slightly wider and thus increasing the payload – was introduced as Diagram 1408. Whilst all three diagrams are modelled in the EFE Rail range, the latter of the three is the subject of this model which is finished in early SR livery (large lettering – pre-1936) and features a flush roof, Lift Link brakes, Panter axle boxes, fabricated buffers and three-hole disc wheels.

New and detailed models of one of the most important coach types used on the Southern Railway. The non-corridor coach provided a maximum number of seats in each coach, essential for the busy suburban and commuter trains run by the Southern.

Highly detailed model of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR) 60-feet length passenger stock featuring raised, glazed lookouts in the roof over the guard's compartment referred to as a birdcage lookout due to the similarity to an aviary enclosure.
Lavatory composite coach with compartments for first and third class passengers finished in the later SR malachite green livery.
Era 4 1922-1948

Highly detailed model of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR) 60-feet length passenger stock featuring raised, glazed lookouts in the roof over the guard's compartment referred to as a birdcage lookout due to the similarity to an aviary enclosure.
Brake third class coach finished in the later SR malachite green livery.
Era 4 1922-1948

These useful drop-side wagons could carry a wide range of loads, from crates, containers and road vehicles to stone blocks and aggregates.

The Covered Carriage Truck was built by the Southern Railway and was known initially as the Van U or Van Utility. Sharing many aspects of its design and features with the Passenger Luggage Vans (PLV, later designated ‘PMV’ by BR), the CCTs differed by having a pair of full width doors at each end, allowing motor vehicles to be loaded and indeed the SR applied the code ‘Covcar’ to many examples, denoting their use as covered car carriers. In addition to transporting motor vehicles and carriages, the CCTs were used to convey all manner of parcels and general merchandise and being express rated, they could run at speed and were often included as part of passenger trains. Construction continued after Nationalisation, however the final examples built had plywood sides – by this time BR had designated them as Covered Carraige Trucks (CCT). 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 1980s, with some surviving later still, in departmental use.

The Covered Carriage Truck was built by the Southern Railway and was known initially as the Van U or Van Utility. Sharing many aspects of its design and features with the Passenger Luggage Vans (PLV, later designated ‘PMV’ by BR), the CCTs differed by having a pair of full width doors at each end, allowing motor vehicles to be loaded and indeed the SR applied the code ‘Covcar’ to many examples, denoting their use as covered car carriers. In addition to transporting motor vehicles and carriages, the CCTs were used to convey all manner of parcels and general merchandise and being express rated, they could run at speed and were often included as part of passenger trains. Construction continued after Nationalisation, however the final examples built had plywood sides – by this time BR had designated them as Covered Carraige Trucks (CCT). 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 1980s, with some surviving later still, in departmental use.

Southern Railway Warwell Wagon Revised Bed MS14176