Coaching Stock for LI

[Mod2]

On an earlier thread I posed the question as to what suburban stock the L1 class would have pulled out of Marylebone on the High Wycombe/Princes Risborough/Woodford Halse service, bearing in mind the new Hornby L1 offering. This is a thank you for all the answers I received, and to add some additional information.

 

Thanks for coming back to do this Robert. I've now merged the topics to keep all this useful info together.

 

Cheers.

[Oldddudders]

Slightly tangential to the core of this thread, but I found a pic of two L1s at KX here, which may be of interest, if not the highest quality http://johnlaw.railfan.net/jlphoto.cgi?l1x2kx.jpg

[coachmann]

If a 6-car Blue Pullman with (presumably) two driven motor cars can be done for just under £300, I wonder how much a 5-coach LNER Gresley Quint-Art suburban set could be done for......£125.00? Would it be as good a seller as a BP?

[Gilwell Park]

A five coach QUAD art? I built a Kirk 5 coach QUINT art and that took ages.

 

Roger

[chrisf]

In the latest issue of Steam Days is an article by Neil Sprinks entitled "Out and About on the Met & GC". One of the accompanying photos shows L1 67715 in apple green leaving Marylebone in the winter of 1948-49. Only the first four coaches are visible: they are articulated pairs of Gresley parentage.

 

Chris

[jointline]

Thanks for the link etc. Incidentally the Model Railway News for August 1945 contains an article by J N Maskelyne on the introduction of the L1's, with a picture of one in apple green with "NE" on the side. Maskelyne really disliked this form of abbreviation, thinking it made one think of "non-entity."!

 

BTW I think coachman's points are valid about the Blue Pullman, but as a sometime accountant I try to distinguish between cost and price. The RRP on the latest Hornby six wheel Pullman cars is over £40, but what the cost is I don't know. Compared to them, the still excellent Bachmann BR Mark I's seem very good value at less than £20 in most cases. I shouldn't imagine the production costs are much different, but the whole concept of "market pricing" comes into it I guess. The Pullmans are the "rising stars", the Mark I's the "cash cows", and we all know about "the dogs"!

 

I suppose I would grit my teeth and pay a hundred quid for a twin art if it were done to a very good standard, but I wouldn't be buying multiple rakes of them! I probably have hours of kit bashing and chopping and fixing ahead, (as if I don't have anything else to do!)

 

Robert

[coachmann]

Bachmanns old chestnuts, the Mk.I non-corridor coaches, probably feature on just about every layout ever built where a suburban train is required.

 

However, a lessor well known sourse of Mk.I suburbans (long chassis variant)is Replica Railways. A feature on these 'kits' can be found in the September issue of Hornby Magazine.

 

Larry

[chrisf]

Indeed and a useful feature it is too. The Replica body deserves a better underframe though! One snag: the article says "This set has been finished for use on a London Midland Region branch". Why, when the long version was only allocated to the Western and Southern Regions?

 

Chris