EFE coaches announced

[Mol_PMB]

I wonder if these are of any use to Irish modellers? Available in crimson and 3 shades of green depending on whether you want GSR or CIE...

https://southern-railway.com/2025/03/14/bachmann-announce-ex-lbsc-isle-of-wight-coaches-as-part-of-their-efe-rail-brand-in-00-gauge/?amp

[jhb171achill]

2 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

I wonder if these are of any use to Irish modellers? Available in crimson and 3 shades of green depending on whether you want GSR or CIE...

https://southern-railway.com/2025/03/14/bachmann-announce-ex-lbsc-isle-of-wight-coaches-as-part-of-their-efe-rail-brand-in-00-gauge/?amp

Unfortunately very unlike anything that ran here….

The right livery, though, and it’s a convenient thing!

[Mol_PMB]

4 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Unfortunately very unlike anything that ran here….

The right livery, though, and it’s a convenient thing!

Agreed - I couldn't find anything that was a particularly close match, though as steam era 'layout coaches' you could do worse.

Broadly, they're this sort of thing, but the details are all different:

 

[jhb171achill]

5 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Agreed - I couldn't find anything that was a particularly close match, though as steam era 'layout coaches' you could do worse.

Broadly, they're this sort of thing, but the details are all different:

 

Those two were wooden-panelled, too.

The one on the left was one of only three surviving coaches at the time from the Waterford, Limerick & Western - l think it was 934 or 935. Only one survives today - the unrestored 6-wheel family saloon No. 900 at Belturbet.

On the right is GSWR 1110, also long gone.

[Mol_PMB]

Just now, jhb171achill said:

Those two were wooden-panelled, too.

The one on the left was one of only three surviving coaches at the time from the Waterford, Limerick & Western - l think it was 934 or 935. Only one survives today - the unrestored 6-wheel family saloon No. 900 at Belturbet.

On the right is GSWR 1110, also long gone.

The EFE coaches are wooden-panelled, if we mean the same thing by that term.

[Galteemore]

11 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Agreed - I couldn't find anything that was a particularly close match, though as steam era 'layout coaches' you could do worse.

Broadly, they're this sort of thing, but the details are all different:

 

Ideal way of producing that classic variety of profiles that characterised many GSR/CIE trains, by adding one or two of those to a rake 

[jhb171achill]

44 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

The EFE coaches are wooden-panelled, if we mean the same thing by that term.

I thought they looked smooth-sided, no?

Meant to add, the six-wheeler on the right of that picture is ex-MGWR six-wheel 3rd, No. 13M.

Its chassis survives at Downpatrick.

[Mol_PMB]

[jhb171achill]

Just now, Mol_PMB said:

Had a closer look. Yes, that’s a bit more to the point. The other picture didn’t show as much detail.

In the absence of much else, in CIE green they’re a good idea.