Hornby Gresley Coaches

[roverman]

They're all 1930's I believe, it has a bit of info about them on the Hornby website.

[wehf100]

If you just want an idea of the years- all these carriages have angle-truss underframe supports, which were introduced from 1935. Whilst the panelling style of LNER carriages was more or less identical to the pre-1923 GNR style, the subtle changes in the height of the waistline and so on makes a GNR carriage instantly recognisable.

The Hornby brake composite looks like a diagram 175, built with welded underframes and formica interior panelling between 1936 and 1940. (76 in total, making it the most numerous brake compo.) An identical carriage but with a rivetted underframe and truss-rod underframe would be a diagram 134, which was built in 1933 in a smaller batch of only 12- minimal effort would convert the hornby model to this earlier type.

The corridor Third is a diagram 115, intorduced from 1932. The later (post 1935?) corridor thirds had end vestibules (i.e- external doors on both sides at the very ends of the carriages)

anyone seriously interested (I;m afraid my interest runs out in 1923...!) should refer to Michael Harris' 'LNER Carriages'.

Will

[stokebank]

Some interesting comments on the latest Hornby LNER coaches. Can anyone help? Over the last few years I have purchsed a rake of these and on one coach the coupling has 'dropped down' - I presume there is some sort of spring mechanism linking the two couplings. My problem is: how do you remove the coach body from the chassis in order to rectify the problem? There must be an easy way without damaging the high degree of detailing.

[B3nj1_p]

With regard to the popularity of Thompson coaches - Its interesting to hear that they go very cheap at swapmeats - the same cannot be said for ebay - these often go for 14+ quid or so plus p... For the last three years I have been hoping that Bachmann would do a decent job on these attractive coaches, but no sign

Its frustrating that they are so much on ebay, particularly as thats where i go for cheaper coaches.

I was trawling the Internet just yesterday for Thompson coaches and was delighted to see that bachmann are producing new Thompsons in mock teak livery, and are available for pre order also hornby are making the suburban Thompson coaches too. It's good to see the late Lner is getting a lot of attention, now all that's needed are a few more rtr post war a4 locos...