kimballthurlow wrote:September 1939 is the date when the 'high speed' services ceased.
That included SJ, Coronation and others.
I think I read somwhere, that the coaches were put into storage.
regards
Kimball
If not broken up .Ive never sean them on other train after that service stoped.The only other was the west riding set .Was that later?if so maybe they used the SJ set and repainted them?
I believe the The West Riding set was released at the same time as The Coronation. On these sets, the skirting seemed to be different ot the SJ sets, and was black, so did not stand out when viewing the train.
The Silver Jubilee sets were of course earlier than the Coronation and West Riding sets and the later sets were improvements on the SJ. The Coronation and West Riding sets were theoretically identical - only the addition of the observation car on the Coronation was the main difference.
Gresley's penchant for all electric cooking didn't find favour post war and the sets were never made up again into their original formations, the 'Newton' or Thompson stock taking over on the main expresses.
One disadvantage of articulated stock was if there was a fault you lost two or three carriages not just one!
BR preferred anthracite and later propane for cooking.
The SJ sets consisted of two twins and a triplet whilst the Coronation and WR sets were four twins plus the observation car in the case of the Coronation.
By the end of 1938 the SJ set had been extended to form one twin and two triplets. I seem to remember that the SJ sets ended up on the Scottish Region but I cannot find the reference at the moment.
Some of the coaches found their way into the Fife Coast Express which ran from Glasgow Queen Street (later Buchanan Street) to Dundee via a devious route running via St.Andrews. I also remember a twin 3rd/Brake 3rd in a formation on an Edinburgh train at Perth station in the 1950s - it was a daytime one and not the usual 8.15pm which I saw on far more numerous occasions.
The 1958 timetable shows a 8.40am departure from Buchanan Street with arrival at Dundee Tay Bridge at 1246. The train ran via Winchburgh and the Forth Bridge. The return working left Dundee at 7.32am. If you look for photos of trains on the Fife coast in the 1950s this stock pops up!
Saint Johnstoun wrote:Some of the coaches found their way into the Fife Coast Express which ran from Glasgow Queen Street (later Buchanan Street) to Dundee via a devious route running via St.Andrews. I also remember a twin 3rd/Brake 3rd in a formation on an Edinburgh train at Perth station in the 1950s - it was a daytime one and not the usual 8.15pm which I saw on far more numerous occasions.
The 1958 timetable shows a 8.40am departure from Buchanan Street with arrival at Dundee Tay Bridge at 1246. The train ran via Winchburgh and the Forth Bridge. The return working left Dundee at 7.32am. If you look for photos of trains on the Fife coast in the 1950s this stock pops up!
oo goody ill do a search.As i bleave that colour rail you have to pay to see pics?
There was a few pictures in one of the Model Railway mags a couple of years ago of a Leeds-Cleethorps train with a pair of ex Coronation coaches in the make up, would be very late 50's, (summer service)
There was also a pic or two of a similar set parked around the back of Bounds Green carriage shed, early 60's
