Mark 1 Suburban Coaches Formations guide

[Warbonnet]

Modellers waiting for our all-new, highly detailed Mark 1 56ft 11' coaches will be pleased to know the BR Blue and Yellow Accurascale Exclusives tool van have arrived in stock!

Dispatch is well underway by our warehouse team with both direct and trade customer orders almost complete. 

With that in hand, we can now release the balance of stock for sale.

With such a variety, we've compiled a list of diagrams to assist you in your quest to build some authentic trains using these suburban beauties . (For larger image, click here)

Still not convinced? Project Manager Paul Isles recently took a trip to the K&WVR to see Mk1 Subs in action, watch the video below as he explains a little more about the project. 

 Please note that some are in very limited numbers, so if you fancy one, act fast!

Shop below and build your whole train, something that is quite rare in model railways today. Both DCC Ready and DCC Sound Fitted 31s are also available with all running numbers below!

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[jhb171achill]

Question: where did these typically operate and what locos usually hauled them?

 

[Tractionman]

I do like these formation guides, they help a lot in selecting which stock to acquire, or prioritise!

I would love to see one done for Irish rolling stock too--for the 1960s-1990s especially for me--part of the fun is trying to work it out for ourselves from books showing scenes from yesteryear, but often the coaching stock is less visible than the loco, and not all captions are so detailed.

With the recent and imminant IRM CIE/IE/IR coaches, I'd love to see something similar done for Ireland

cheers,

Keith

[Flying Snail]

58 minutes ago, Tractionman said:

I do like these formation guides, they help a lot in selecting which stock to acquire, or prioritise!

I would love to see one done for Irish rolling stock too--for the 1960s-1990s especially for me--part of the fun is trying to work it out for ourselves from books showing scenes from yesteryear, but often the coaching stock is less visible than the loco, and not all captions are so detailed.

With the recent and imminant IRM CIE/IE/IR coaches, I'd love to see something similar done for Ireland

cheers,

Keith

IRM have done some Irish formation guides. There's one here for their IR/IE Mk2s

and there's another for the NIR stock somewhere too

Edit: it's here - https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/10440-irm-announce-nir-enterprise-mark-2-coaches/page/13/#comment-228005

 

Edited October 10 by Flying Snail

[Tractionman]

Many thanks @Flying Snail that's good to see, I should be more attentive!!  

I shall study with interest

Is there one for the Park Royals as well?

cheers,

Keith

[Warbonnet]

42 minutes ago, Tractionman said:

Many thanks @Flying Snail that's good to see, I should be more attentive!!  

I shall study with interest

Is there one for the Park Royals as well?

cheers,

Keith

Hi Keith,

The issue with older Irish coaches etc as very few ever documented numbers, and even fewer photographed the coaches in a train, it always tended to be loco focused. So, the lack of information really hinders us doing them for stuff from the 50s, 60s, 70s 80s etc.

Cheers!

Fran 

[Flying Snail]

1 hour ago, Tractionman said:

Many thanks @Flying Snail that's good to see, I should be more attentive!!  

I shall study with interest

I only remembered it because, like you, I thought it was an excellent idea. I hope IRM continue to do them where they can 

[Mayner]

8 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Question: where did these typically operate and what locos usually hauled them?

 

Famously Class 31 hauled London suburban and outer services out of Kings Cross and Moorgate to destinations in Herts and Cambridge from the 60s until the services was electrified from the mid 70s onwards. 

Slam Door Compartment and High Density stock seemed to be popular with both passengers and operating staff for London (and Biirmingham) suburban/outer suburban services until replaced with MK3 stock although Mersey Side and the North East had graduated to "modern" sliding door saloon electric stock from the 1920s onwards.

Routes, motive power and train formations detailed in Warbonnet's original post.

 

 

 

[jhb171achill]

49 minutes ago, Mayner said:

Famously Class 31 hauled London suburban and outer services out of Kings Cross and Moorgate to destinations in Herts and Cambridge from the 60s until the services was electrified from the mid 70s onwards. 

Slam Door Compartment and High Density stock seemed to be popular with both passengers and operating staff for London (and Biirmingham) suburban/outer suburban services until replaced with MK3 stock although Mersey Side and the North East had graduated to "modern" sliding door saloon electric stock from the 1920s onwards.

Routes, motive power and train formations detailed in Warbonnet's original post.

 

 

 

Ah. I’ve always had a liking for class 31s. Might have consider a temporary renaming of Dugort Harbour, Co Kerry, as Little Wolding on Trent, Suffockshire, Republic of Brexitstan….  cue an invasion of BR 2MT, 4MT, Black 5s, and class 101 railcars…..