down the sdjr Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 So, it looks like Hattons are proposing to make 4 and 6 wheel coaches in SDJR colours. Dont have much more info as only an email so far. https://www.hattons.co.uk/newsdetail.aspx?id=594 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted October 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2019 There is a fairly comprehensive thread at - including responses from Hattons and details of changes they plan to make to their original designs as a result of RMweb members comments and suggestions. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 19, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 19, 2019 It's fairly clear that these will bear only a passing resemblance to genuine S&DJR 6 and 4-wheelers, though the panelling will be in roughly the right style. The question will always be, how passable is a passing resemblance? The 46 ft bogie carriages are listed in the Wishlist Poll - under Coaches: LMS & Constituents, so vote now! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnofwessex Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 When did the last 4/6 wheel passenger vehicles run on the S&D? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted October 19, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2019 A couple survived as part the breakdown train until 1952. Isn't there a record somewhere of the stock that the Midland and Southern inherited? One could gauge from that whether many were still around in the 1920s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 19, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) There seem to be records for stock that went to the Southern, but not to the LMS, judging by the information in Garner*. There was wholesale withdrawal of the 1891 Cravens thirds and brake thirds, along with Highbridge-built carriages of about the same date, in March 1930 - i.e. as soon as the Southern saw them, they went. The bogie carriages held on for a few years longer but nearly all gone by 1939. The 4-wheelers listed all have numbers that were re-used by later Highbridge-built carriages, so had probably all been withdrawn by the 90s - though some seem to have lingered on as duplicate stock, e.g. the Highbridge workmen's train. *R. Garner, The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Locomotive and Stock Registers 1886-1930 (The Somerset & Dorset Trailway Trust, 2000). Edited October 19, 2019 by Compound2632 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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