JM Design Coach Sides & TPO kit

[Mayner]

The test etches for the 4w TPO kit & Buffet Car sides arrived last week.

 

Some minor modifications required to the TPO tooling otherwise everything looks good.

 

 

 

TPO with alternative sides for engineers tool van.

 

 

Buffet Car Sides

 

 

 

 

Dapol Stanier CIE Buffet Conversion

 

 

Side Corridor Standard Mock-up.

 

The Buffet Car and Side Corridor Standard sides should be available October. The first batch of TPO kits November.

 

If there is enough interest I will produce an interior kit for the buffet complete with bar counter and tables and chairs.

[RedRich]

Very nice John. The kit looks very well thought out. I can imagine the work that has gone into the design and to what you have in front of you now. You deserve huge credit for what you are bringing to the Irish scene.

 

Rich,

[BosKonay]

They look fantastic!

[Dave]

They look great, the detail is fantastic

[scahalane]

Excellent attention to detail, looks great, well done John.

[Kirley]

Excellent John, maintaining the standard.

[jhb171achill]

Absolutely too class, superb. Brings back so many memories of travelling in those and having breakfast complete with dribble teapot.....

 

Congratulations for bringing alive yet another once commonplace item for modellers.

[iarnrod]

Which of Mayner's kit produced so far would have still been used in 1987 i.e. when Irish Rail was created? Not well informed on CIE coaches I'm afraid.

[David Holman]

Very impressive. They deserve to do really well.

[flange lubricator]

Super work John, I will certainly be ordering the Tpo and the sides for Buffet car , it would be great if you could do the interior for the Buffet car.

[Dunluce Castle]

Those etches look great, nice Job.

[Mayner]

Super work John, I will certainly be ordering the Tpo and the sides for Buffet car , it would be great if you could do the interior for the Buffet car.[ATTACH=CONFIG]14684[/ATTACH]

 

Brilliant find:

 

Quite stylish almost a cocktail bar.

I am definitely tempted to do an interior, probably nickel silver. Miller Engineering pushed the boundaries with this sort of thing in Z & N http://jamesriverbranch.net/project_7a.htm

 

Iarnrod

 

Four Buffet Cars seem to have lasted in service into 1987 most likely for Connolly-Sligo & Rosslare Trains.

 

Most of the wooden bodied stock were withdrawn in the early 80s, several of the side corridor standards passed into preservation 1st with the GSRPS in Mallow & Tralee, some were overhauled & repainted in lined green with flying snail at Tralee and were eventually used by Westrail between Tuam & Athenry.

[Warbonnet]

I'll be up for the sides and the buffet interior John. The TPO may also be on interest. Does anyone have details of a typical formation of a TPO train that these vans would've been used in?

[flange lubricator]

Four Buffet Cars seem to have lasted in service into 1987 most likely for Connolly-Sligo & Rosslare Trains.

 

2419 Was withdrawn mid 1987 , it is now preserved at Downpatrick .

[iarnrod]

Thanks John. Any idea when the TPO's operated until?

 

Also, what was the period that your heating and luggage vans operated in I.e. When were they withdrawn from service?

 

Many thanks.

 

Brilliant find:

 

Quite stylish almost a cocktail bar.

I am definitely tempted to do an interior, probably nickel silver. Miller Engineering pushed the boundaries with this sort of thing in Z & N http://jamesriverbranch.net/project_7a.htm

 

Iarnrod

 

Four Buffet Cars seem to have lasted in service into 1987 most likely for Connolly-Sligo & Rosslare Trains.

 

Most of the wooden bodied stock were withdrawn in the early 80s, several of the side corridor standards passed into preservation 1st with the GSRPS in Mallow & Tralee, some were overhauled & repainted in lined green with flying snail at Tralee and were eventually used by Westrail between Tuam & Athenry.

[Mayner]

TPO test build.

 

 

 

 

 

Alternative sides and gangway blanking plates are provided to build the tool/riding van version.

 

Some minor changes needed to the final photo tool the first batch of kits should be available November.