robertcwp

I have a Hornby Clan which looks good and ran faultlessly when tested last weekend. From the RCTS book on the BR Standards - Vol 1: 72006 worked a special and was photographed at Old Oak Common on 8/12/63. Home Counties rail tour which went to Swindon. 72005 made it to Bristol TM on 9/1/60 on a service train, returning next day on another service train. One was trialled on the Great Eastern, who didn't like it as they preferred their Britannias. Also, I have a vague recollection that one made it to Marylebone on a Starlight Special but this may be a myth. Clans were known to work those trains north from Beighton to Carlisle (they avoided Leeds City so did not reverse along the way).

There were coaches painted in what was sometimes referred to as teak paint but was basically brown. Michael Harris commented that the shade varied from works to works. This livery was, for example, applied to some pre-grouping stock and some Tourist stock during the war (a colour photo appears in The Big Four in Colour 1935-1950). The shade seems to have been pretty dark - the one colour photo shows it was nothing like the real varnished teak. The post-war stock was painted with a mock grained finish to look more like genuine teak stock. This approach (in a more elaborate form) was also used on steel-panelled Gresley stock built prior to WW2. The two buffet lounge cars 1705 and 1706 were in this livery when new, changing to crimson/cream by 1952 and maroon in time for the 1957 Summer Elizabethan (their last year in the train). They were rebuilt c1959 and at least one was blue/grey as early as 1966. A colour photo is in the Photos section on my Yahoo Group BRCoachingstock but I can't post it here as I don't own the copyright.

Good point! I forgot it was of German origin, though it's an accepted English word and as an adjective it simply means fake or substitute (per Chambers). Did the LNER have an official term for the livery?

The two Thompson buffet cars were built in 1948 so date from the BR era, albeit to a pre-nationalisation design. More than half of the Thompson stock was built post-nationalisation, though it continued to be turned out in ersatz teak until Spring 1949, apart from 1948 experimental liveries. A similar situation to that with the final coaching stock designs of the other Big Four companies.

I'm not sure if it is E9195E. Here's a closer view: Looking at it again, it looks more like a normal Gresley one, but it's hard to tell.

I believe the following Gresley buffet cars were blue/grey, but there may have been others too: 9122 9123 9123 9124 9128 9131 9132 9135 9195 - this one was to a different diagram. A maroon Gresley buffet is in this Cardiff-Portsmouth train: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/3984564006_8f92a84c61_o.jpg I have a couple of photos in my collection, starting with this one: Also, I think E9195E is in this train:

I don't mean to pour cold water on things but I have a problem with my Kestrel, which I collected today. When I took it out of the box at home to test it, I found the buffer beam at one end had snapped off and was hanging by the ETH cable. Also very minor damage to the body end. I rang the shop, which will not be named, and the proprietor informed me that a few others in their consignment also had broken buffer beams, all at one end only. Most were OK though. By the way, 1N06 was an East Coast 'high-speed' set of air-braked stock, formed 3 TSO IIa, RB, RU, 2 FO, BFK IIa. RU and Mark IIa stock from Bachmann. RB from Mainline. FO from Replica.