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Found the same picture in LMS Coaches. Date circa. 1946, train in service. The destination board says 'Southport' though this is the back of the train (note the tail lamp). It could still be heading towards Southport if the information was changed at both ends to provide passenger information at a terminal platform. I'm afraid I have no idea where though.

The unit looks to be in the original 1930s LMS livery.

Tea urn?

It's AI. There's a lot of it about this past month or so on ebay. "The scale is 1:148 and the gauge is OO" is a classic! Obviously it spotted that Graham Farish products are now N gauge but didn't actually understand the concept of scale and gauge description.

I thought it looked familiar; I photographed at Leyton Yard too in 1978.

Yes, it stinks, doesn't it? There seem to be a lot of those crass and often inaccurate descriptions lately a.k.a. bovine waste. "The scale is 1:148 and the gauge is OO" 🙄

Also Mabex. 2019 catalogue here.

If it's a Mk.2D it may be the ex-Dapol, ex-Airfix model. Might be worth searching for clues on that. From memory the seating unit is screwed to the floor (possibly from the inside; it's a long time since I last had one) and then the flush glazing clips onto that, the glazing keeping the body on.

The most likely candidates are Falcon, Ashley or Elva, though Martin is a possibility. The picture below was taken in 1958 at the Robin Hood, Epping which was (briefly) the works for Ashley. There were lots of similar kit cars though, some manufacturers quite short lived. The car in my photo seems to be an Ashley 1172 which makes sense for both time and place.

Another Lima model 86235 Navalty. Now there's a novelty.

Ah, well not the first post, just the one in the Railway Modeller article then.

One in the second post on the first page of this thread, not to mention the article in the Railway Modeller, April 1970.

If the conversion is to be based on the current Mk.2 Farish by Bachmann coaches I would use the same offsets from the centre line or it will look odd in a rake. There was extensive research done at the time by Colin Allbright so they're pretty accurate. The pairs of in-line vents over the compartments do centre on the windows. The vents at the luggage end and over the guard's compartment will be the same on BFK and BSO as the same body shell was used. As for the toilet, the nearer of those two fittings (on the centre-line) is original, but I'm afraid I don't know when the other, larger one was fitted.

Here's the roof vent arrangement: b = roof ends painted blue (Mk.2/2a) v - domed vent t = toilet vent You could also use the old Tri-ang Hornby/Hornby Mk.2 BFK as a visual guide.

The basic shells were apparently 10% lighter than the same DEV design on mild steel. DEV history (in French)