Ravel Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Hi all, I am looking into building a coach rake to use as a 'railtour set', for my planned layout which will be set in 1999-2005ish, From some basic research on Flickr it seems MK1s were the order of the day with all sorts of different liveries with sometimes no uniformity, does anyone have any definitive 'rakes' that were used, with coach types included? Thanks in advance! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Formations are sometimes listed on Six bells Railtour pages and there is a fairly comprehensive list of sets and coaches at the bottom of this page: http://www.uksteam.info/tours/trs00.htm 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 On 09/02/2024 at 08:39, Ravel said: ... 1999-2005ish, ... September '98 close enough ? - I happened to scan these the other day : I believe the green set was BN96 .... Doncaster : 19/9/98 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 I would also advocate looking at six bells junction. In the railtour files click on the year you want, then scroll down to a specific date then it will tell you the loco's used and the coaching stock as well where known. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted February 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21 Bounds Green had several rakes based there, owned by Rail Charter Services. If you're including a kitchen car, then they usually served a maximum of three FOs at a time. Any more required a second kitchen car. BN91 was the maroon or blood and custard set, mainly used on steam charters. TSO-TSO-TSO-RMB-BCK/BSK-FO-FO-FO-RBR-FO-FO would be a possible formation. The brake/genny was usually in the middle between standard class and first. If you search on Flickr for "50031 Shaldon Bridge" there's a good shot of almost the full set in a similar formation. BN93 was the Pride of the Nation set, either in LNWR black and white, or green and cream. BCK-FO-FO-RBR-FO-FO-RBR-FO-FO-BCK. Regarding the other sets, BN94 was the blue and grey set, and BN96 was the green set. Their formations varied greatly! BN92 was disbanded in the late 90s after a derailment. BN95 I believe was the exhibition train, and BN97 was a rake of vacuum braked, steam heated maroon liveried Mk1s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted February 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21 I’ve been contemplating putting together a railtour set of mk1s (98/99) as the set used on the Falmouth Packet tour (with a King) mostly as a justification for my Cavalex 56. Will have a look through those links, hopefully it will have more info than the small number of photos I’ve found so far Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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