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Mk 2A TSO open Second coaches

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Hello All,

 

I have just bought 2 Murphy Models Mk 2A TSO open second coaches from eBay. I'm wondering what other coaches or wagons would have prototypically run with them in a rake?

 

I think park royals, laminates or Craven's were too early to have been used with MK2As?

So would they have been added to a rake of Mk2Ds , Mk3s or mk4s or Galway carriages during high demand?

Or just run on their own on a branch line. 

Would they be run with a generator carriage?

 

Thanks in advance.

Ray 

 

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What DJ said.

 

These coaches differed from most(all?) of the other stock on the irish network in that they were air braked rather than vacuumed and this meant upon their refurbishment there was no available brake van to make up the set, so three dutch vans were specifically rebuilt to airbrake spec to suit these coaches.

 

This also means they could not run with A class and were exclusively run with GM power.

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