The Continental third is nearly ready for the paint shop. The body is complete, but I'm just waiting for a few Comet parts to finish off the underframe. It's going to be Malachite Green.

The door handrails were a bit of a pig to bend to shape. These were originally straight when the coaches were built. When the doors were rehung to open outwards in the normal way (they originally opened inwards) the handrails got a joggle in then to avoid people scraping their knuckles when opening the door.

These are amongst the oddest coaches to run on a British Railway - inward opening doors, droplights to every compartment (but no doors) and matchboard panelling. They also looked odd when coupled together, having buckeye couplings and flat ends, so the ends of the coaches were far closer than usual. There's an example preserved at the VCT museum on the KWVR and it's the interior is open to the public if you want to have a look at a real one.