Bulleidnutter Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Morning all. I am after some information on the formation of coach sets that came onto the Southern network around Southampton plus over the S n D. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted August 17, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 17, 2010 Morning all. I am after some information on the formation of coach sets that came onto the Southern network around Southampton plus over the S n D. This site will tell you all about Southern stock, by set, up to about 1960. The S&D gets mentioned. http://www3.sympatico.ca/lsw.lbsc/00COACHS/SETREGST.HTM For details of individual vehicles, then Gould "Maunsell's SR Steam Passenger Stock" and King "An Illustrated History of Southern Coaches" are the standard works. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poggy1165 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Another option might be to study something like the 4 volume work by Ivo Peters on the S&D, which is packed with photos of S&D passenger trains. Of course, you'll then have to interpret the photos, that's the hard bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 The Southern Maunsell 3-coach sets known as '3P' sets were used on S&DJR trains and elsewhere on the Southern Region. Hornby has not produced these coaches as yet, and it will be a missed opportunity if they don't seeing as they could be sold as sets with set numbers on the ends. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Got plenty of SO, SK, and BSK's ? That what the main consists, or rakes were, not many 1st class ( or refreshments) on cross country work, maybe one or two composites in the middle, and a BCK at one end.For S&DJR train formations see Peter Fosters books under' The District Controller's View' series from Xpress Publications, incidentally Xpress Publications is one of the best sources for train formations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted August 18, 2010 Share Posted August 18, 2010 S&D from memory - Maunsell Low-windowed stock in sets 390, 391 392 and 393. Try this link http://www.semgonline.com/coach/CoachSets.txt Hornby do low-windowed Maunsells but only in Southern Rail colours it seems. Sure I have seen a photo somehwere of a Maunsell High-window coach over the S&D but can't remembere which book this was in (was looking for this the other day but failed to locate it). Hopefully Hornby will issue this stock in due course. Maybe they are holding it back to re-invigorate interest when sales start to lower. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted August 18, 2010 Share Posted August 18, 2010 Sorry, I was under the impression that 'bulleidnutter' was asking about 'cross-country' sets which I take as 'inter-regional', the Maunsell sets were for local traffic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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