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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)

Of course, everyone knows post boxes are red, as this old postcard* proves: *or not 😈

I think the problem here is not so much the exact shade and perception of colour, which is really another well discussed topic, but the possible use of random colour and guesses when converting a monochrome image. Personally I'd rather have the original non-colour picture.

Given the car towards the front of the picture has the 'Colt' (Mitsubishi) 'star' on the grille, it isn't going to be a Chrysler or Talbot Solara. Some searching reveals it as a 2nd generation Mitsubishi Lancer, though in the UK it was still called the Colt Lancer, a new model in 1979.

Same length as the HD model, but a new tool. The HD LMS brake van used GWR partitions as did their BR brake van. Hornby 1974 Hornby Dublo circa 1960

The long buffers would be the then standard square shank type with large round heads.

The glass carrying wagon (Coral A) actually has "A K's MODEL" cast into the underside in your photo. Is the other (top) wagon cast or etched brass? It's not clear from the pictures. Here's a list of GWR wagon kits.

Going by the number of vertical seams I reckon it's a 'C' type container, so 27' long (8' x 8' cross section) the maximum length allowed on trailers at the time. These were withdrawn comparatively early, superseded by 30' and then 40' types.

The three compartment coach looks rather like the 'Prusssian' coaches Bachmann did.

Not really; they're right on the real thing when you compare them to the official specifications. Actual painted numbers. BR Gill Sans. The Marklin numbers would look better if they were spaced a little further apart. Indeed if the spacing had been right the typeface errors wouldn't have been very obvious. It's only when you look closely you can see the '0's are a bit too elliptical and the '3' is symmetrical top to bottom; Gill Sans '3' has a very slightly longer bottom stroke and the centre part angles down very slightly. The signwriter has done his job correctly.

British Trix and Rivarossi both used 1:80 scale, though some Trix models: AL1 (because it started as Lilliput) and the late '60s A2, A3 and A4 LNER Pacifics were 4mm scale while the 16t mineral and pig iron wagons were 'accidentally' 4mm scale because their 1:80 scale 17' 6" chassis works out at 16' 6" in 4mm scale.