GWR Toplight Coach Set (3) GWR Chocolate/Cream Pack A

GWR Toplight Coach Set (3) GWR Chocolate/Cream Pack A

Set of three 1:76 Scale Coaches produced in GWR livery. These models feature lots of expertly applied details as based on the prototypes, a high level of body detail and excellent running characteristics.

Features

• 1:76 Scale Model
• Highly accurate injection moulded body with bolection window mouldings and frosted Toplight windows.
• Separate metal door and commode handles
• Wire end hand rails and separately applied end communication details
• Correct number of roof ventilators depending on the prototypical period being modelled
• Highly detailed chassis with vacuum tanks, battery boxes and brake linkages all to a high degree of fidelity
• 9ft bogie bolster with dicast side frames and split axles for electrical pickup
• Highly detailed interior with period specific decorations being applied
• Kinematic couplings with NEM pockets including special coupling bar to give close coupling
• Coaches are capable of negotiating R2 radius curves
• Sprung metal buffers
• Heavy Diecast chassis
• Internal lighting. Can be optionally DCC fitted with a six pin decoder such as the Dapol Imperium 5.

Contents

• 1 x GWR Toplight Mainline City Lined Choc/Cm 3rd Brake 3749
• 1 x GWR Toplight Mainline City Lined Choc/Cm All 3rd 3904
• 1 x GWR Toplight Mainline City Lined Choc/Cm Composite 7903

Details

The first order for these coaches was placed in 1915 but, due to the First World War, they were not built until 1920. The second batch was completed in 1921. Six sets of coaches were produced with each set comprising six coaches. The coaches were close coupled and constructed with a steel body rather than the traditional wooden panelling.

Due to the restrictive loading gauge of the London Underground tunnels, the carriages are 7 inches lower than other contemporary carriages of the time. This enabled them to travel directly to Aldgate and Liverpool Street, on the Metropolitan Underground system. The coaches were originally used for commuter traffic from the likes of Reading and Windsor into the City of London. At the start of the Second World War this service was curtailed. However, after the war and into BR days the coaches could be found on services much further afield.