The new LMS design 'Porthole' corridor composite coach from Bachmann arrived today. What can I say apart from WOW! If anyone is hesitating, hesitate no further. I pre-ordered and got an absolute snip at the price, but even at retail price this model remains darn good value for money. The D2159 60 ft corridor composite coach appeared in 1947 as the last expression of LMS design ideas. With a profile quite unlike previous LMS designs, its construction more or less established BR standard coach con
Hi 6959, what a superb picture of the TK showing the welded bogies, trusses and frames. The box cover on the door is a vent, many LMS coaches had these removed over time and if one looks at a non corridor coach you can sometimes see odd doors without vents and later no vents at all, makes for nice detail differences between coaches in a train. This seemed to happen from about mid fifties, can Coachmann confirm?
The photo also shows the torpedo vents nicely I tried three times to make a good ver