Slaters Plastikard O Gauge 7C07 GWR 4 Wheel Brake Third Coach Kit
GWR 4 Wheeled Brake Third Coach (Diagram T34)
A detailed model kit constructing a replica of the GWR diagram T34 4-wheeled brake third class coach, with compartments for third class passengers plus and office for the guard and luggage stowage compartment. The parts needed to produce a detailed interior included.
The brake third is the most useful of the 4-wheel coaches for modellers of minor railways. The coach combines accommodation for passengers, facilities for the guard and space for small volume goods traffic to be conveyed without using a separate wagon.
Supplied with metal wheels and sprung buffers
The brake third could also act as a guards' brake van on short goods trains and it was not unknown for the coach to be placed at the rear of mixed trains (conveying both passengers in coaches and goods in wagons in the same train) for this purpose. The archives of the Board of Trade often contain correspondance with minor railway companies regarding the requirements for the guard to travel in the last vehicle, or for pasenger carrying coaches to be connected to the engines' train brake system. Often the reply from the impecunious railway company is that the coach cannot be at both ends of the train at once!