So after ramming some engines through the updateometer I realised that I haven't done any rolling stock for at least a year! Which is terrible of me. Worse still, apart from the support coaches for my breakdown crane, I have no passenger stock at all.

Well that must change so first things first, I have set about doing a local passenger set to go with my Ivatt's and a V3 I have waiting to be converted.

Now it might have been a simple affair of buying some new and improved Hornby Teaks and in an ideal world I might have. But I'm a poor student and i have a rake of some Railroad Teaks lying about so I thought, sod it, I'll use them instead.

I'm not bothered by the inaccurate length of the coaches - they look enough like Teaks to me. The underframe however is something I would struggle to live with. So I set about with some MJT bits and some parts that had come through to my local shop from another which had closed. On hind sight the white metal battery boxes could have been scratch built to fit in with the support girders. the MJT parts - being accurate - were too long to fit between the frames.

Originally I was going to make the girder frame from plastic card but they proved to be too arduous a task, plus when the original moulding were not too badly damaged and could be reused in part. the only replacement was the centre bit so I swapped for some evergreen 'L' section. the read was pretty much straight forward bar some slight inconstancies but visually nothing to cause too much alarm.

I'm wondering how to couple the middle set of coaches up but I have an idea in mind.... watch this space.