Dapol Stroudley Coaches

Due Feb 2023
The first run of these Stroudley coaches from Dapol represent the oil lit varnished mahogany liveried coaches. Later batches will be produced with gas and electric lighting fittings and Westinghouse air train brakes.
Suburban sets will need 2 brake third coaches, as these are the only coaches with full buffers for coupling to a locomotive on their outer (van) ends. Additional coaches can be coupled between them to make up a suitable length of train using the bar couplings.
Mainline coaches have full buffers and couplings on each coach.

Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines.
This model of 3-compartment third class brake end coach number 917 is finished in varnished mahogany livery with oil lighting fittings and full buffers at the outer (van) end only.
Suburban type coach with intermediate bar couplings within coach set. Brake ends have conventional buffers and couplings at one end only, see photos.

£93.95
MRP £122.96
Warehouse: 3
Gloucester: 1
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(Product Ref 108404)
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines.
This model of 3 compartment third class brake end coach number 918 is finished in varnished mahogany livery with oil lighting fittings and full buffers at the outer (van) end only. Suburban type coach with intermediate bar couplings within coach set.

£93.95
MRP £122.96
Warehouse: 3
Gloucester: 1
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(Product Ref 108403)
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines.
This model of 5 compartment all-third class coach number 861 finished in varnished mahogany livery with oil lighting fittings and fixed bar couplings only.
Note, this coach has bar couplings only for coupling between two brake end coaches.

£93.95
MRP £122.96
Warehouse: 5
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(Product Ref 104649)
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines.
This model of 5 compartment second class coach number 507 finished in varnished mahogany livery with oil lighting fittings and fixed bar couplings only.
Note, this coach has bar couplings only for coupling between two brake end coaches.

£93.95
MRP £122.96
Warehouse: 3
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(Product Ref 108400)
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines.
This model of 4 compartment first / second class composite coach number 404 finished in varnished mahogany livery with oil lighting fittings and fixed bar couplings only.
Note, this coach has bar couplings only for coupling between two brake end coaches.

£93.95
MRP £122.96
Warehouse: 2
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines.
This model of 4 compartment first class coach number 707 finished in varnished mahogany livery with oil lighting fittings and fixed bar couplings only.
Note, this coach has bar couplings only for coupling between two brake end coaches.

£93.95
MRP £122.96
Warehouse: 2
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(Product Ref 108398)
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines.
This model of 4 compartment first class coach number 707 finished in varnished mahogany livery with oil lighting fittings and fixed bar couplings only.
Note, this coach has bar couplings only for coupling between two brake end coaches.

£119.95
MRP £150.90
Warehouse: 1
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines. This model replicates these coaches towards the end of their service lives in the 1920s with the Southern Railway and equipped with electric lighting. The final examples of these coaches served on the Isle of Wight, often hauled by the Island based Terriers. The preserved Isle of Wight Steam Railway has restored two 4-wheel LB&SCR coaches to service.
Model of brake third class coach 4142 in Southern Railway lined green livery.

£104.50
MRP £122.96
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines. This model replicates these coaches towards the end of their service lives in the 1920s with the Southern Railway and equipped with electric lighting. The final examples of these coaches served on the Isle of Wight, often hauled by the Island based Terriers. The preserved Isle of Wight Steam Railway has restored two 4-wheel LB&SCR coaches to service.
Model of brake third class coach 4143 in Southern Railway lined green livery.

£104.50
MRP £122.96
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines.
This model of 5 compartment all-third class coach number 811 finished in varnished mahogany livery with oil lighting fittings and standard buffers. Coupling hooks are fitted with screw couplings.

£104.50
MRP £122.96

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(Product Ref 108397)
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines. This model replicates these coaches towards the end of their service lives in the 1920s with the Southern Railway and equipped with electric lighting. The final examples of these coaches served on the Isle of Wight, often hauled by the Island based Terriers. The preserved Isle of Wight Steam Railway has restored two 4-wheel LB&SCR coaches to service.
Model of third class coach 1794 in Southern Railway lined green livery.

£104.50
MRP £122.96

Must be ordered - delivery as soon as possible.
(Product Ref 123412)
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Detailed ready-to-run model of the LB&SCR 26ft length 4 wheel main line suburban coaches built in the Stroudley era and placed in service with the famous A1 class Terrier 0-6-0 tank engines. This model replicates these coaches towards the end of their service lives in the 1920s with the Southern Railway and equipped with electric lighting. The final examples of these coaches served on the Isle of Wight, often hauled by the Island based Terriers. The preserved Isle of Wight Steam Railway has restored two 4-wheel LB&SCR coaches to service.
Model of first/third class composite coach 6388 in Southern Railway lined green livery.

£104.50
MRP £122.96

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The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, LB&SCR, constructed more than 1,500 of these 4 wheeled carriages between 1870 and 1890 for local and main line suburban services, often headed up by one of the Stroudley A1 class 'Terrier' 0-6-0 tank engines. The coaches were all a standard 26 feet length on a 15 feet wheelbase chassis with compartment sizes and fittings commensurate with the class of passengers to be accommodated. These were formed into close-coupled sets of between eight and eleven coaches with an appropriate mix of first, second and third class seating accommodation, in all cases with a brake third coach at the outer ends, as these were the only coaches equipped with standard buffers and couplings. Within the set the coaches were close coupled, originally with semi-permanent bar couplings, though later some of the main line services coaches were fitted with short side buffers to improve shock cushioning between coaches.

A number of changes were made to the coaches over their working lives.
Initially the only brakes available were the hand brakes in guards vans of the brake third coaches, but later all coaches on the LB&SCR were fitted with the Westinghouse automatic air brake, placing the brakes on every coach under the control of the engine driver. (ref. Regulation of Railways act 1889).
Lighting was originally by oil lamps, however many coaches were converted to brighter gas lighting, and from 1881 some sets were fitted with electric lighting, dynamos and batteries being fitted in the brake coaches.

Several 12-coach sets were still available for service at the grouping in 1923 and received new Southern Railway numbers, though the combined fleets of the amalgamated companies quickly rendered these elderly 4-wheel coaches redundant. However the Isle of Wight had a need for extra coaches for additional seasonal service and in 1924 two 4-coach sets were created from the surviving stock of Stroudley coaches. These sets were formed with two 3-compartment brake thirds, a 5-compartment third and a composite coach with 3 first and 1 third class compartments. Three further sets were transferred in 1925 formed from newer and longer Billinton design 4-wheel coaches. On the Isle of Wight the ex-Brighton 4-wheel coaches were mostly used during the peak holiday season and as additional bogie coaches became available all were withdrawn from service on the island after the summer of 1931.

As the major railway companies introduced bogie coaches second-hand 4-wheel coaches were purchased by many independent, light railway and large industrial companies, often it being cheaper to buy a serviceable ex-mainline coach than to repair an existing vehicle. Some coaches like these survived into the 1950s as workmens or miners coaches, with a few to be found in British Railways engineers yards as mess and riding vans, brake thirds being most commonly adopted by the engineering departments as these coaches already had a hand brake.
These are sure to be useful for many small layouts and are ideal for 'freelance' layouts.

Dapol are producing these coaches in 2 types, 'mainline' coaches with short buffers and 'suburban' coaches with drawbar couplings only. The brake third coaches of each type have standard length buffers for coupling to locomotives and other stock.

Suggested train formations (mainline or suburban)
2 coaches - Brake third - Brake third
3 coaches - Brake third - Composite - Brake third
4 coaches - Brake third - Third - Composite - Brake third
5 coaches - Brake third - Third - Composite - Second - Brake third (full set of 'mainline' stock) or
5 coaches - Brake third - Third - First - SecondĀ  - Brake third (suburban stock)
6 coaches - Brake third - Third - Composite - First - Second - Brake third (full set of 'suburban' stock)

Individual coaches from the production can be combined to form longer fixed-formation trains, however modellers may find forming 2 sets from the lists of 3 to 6 formations using the extra brake third coaches will provide more interesting operating opportunities by allowing the dividing and combining of trains.