DMU Class 108

[Thomas]

Good Day all,

Not an Irish setting so I do apologise before I start. I have a request to increase the no of cars on a Bachmann DMU class 108 BR Green which is a 2 car set to 4. However my knowledge on this subject is verry limited. I contacted Bachmann and they do not do centre cars that are separately available. My question is "Is there any RTR cars out there that can be purchased or cars that would pass if looked at a glance"?

Regards

Thomas

[BSGSV]

Not sure about model intermediates, but for prototype information you could try here:

https://www.railcar.co.uk/

[Mol_PMB]

A lot will depend on the time period (and livery) being modelled. You'll need a thorough read of the railcar site as linked above; these pages in particular may be useful. 

Class 108 DMU Diagrams

Class 108 DMU Operations

I think you will find that the 4-car sets had different driving cars to most of the 2-car sets. Those built with 4 cars were formed DMC-TBS-TS-DMC. 

Depending on which variants Bachmann have produced, you may therefore need to modify the driving cars too if you need to accurately recreate a 4-car set as built. You may need to buy several sets to get enough bits to cut and shut. This should tell you what Bachmann have produced, it looks like they've done mostly 2-car sets and a few 3-car sets:

Bachmann Branchline OO Class 108 (2006) - Details

For example this set contains one DMC and one TS that would be suitable for a 4-car set if renumbered, but the other driving car is not the correct sort. 

Bachmann Branchline 32-911 Class 108 3 car DMU BR green yellow warning

Whereas neither of the cars in this set would be suitable for a 4-car set:

Bachmann Branchline 32-906 Class 108 2 Car DMU in BR green with half

 

In later years the formations would have been changed and very often mixed up with other classes, so it would be entirely plausible to have (say) a Class 101 trailer formed into a Class 108 set. 

[Thomas]

Thanks for the information gents, plenty to work on. 

[Darius43]

You can make up a centre car by ordering the body, chassis and bogies etc. from the Bachmann Spares website.

Bachmann Class 108 spares

Cheers

Darius