Bachmann Branchline 39-622 OO Gauge BR ex-SR/SECR Brake Third Class Coach with Birdcage Guards' Lookout British Railways Vermillion Livery
New highly detailed models of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR) 60-feet length passenger stock featuring raised, glazed lookouts in the roof over the guard's compartments referred to as a birdcage lookout due to the similarity to an aviary enclosure. These distinctive coaches had long service lives, the Southern Railway investing in electric trains rather than building new steam hauled stock suburban services. These SECR coach sets, along with many other pre-grouping suburban coaches will still in service into the British Railways period after 1948.
This coach is painted in the British Railways crimson livery, ideal for use with the many former Southern Railway locomotives and BR Standard class 4MT 4-6-0 and 2-6-4 tank engines which worked on the Southern. Era 4 1948-1956 (BR early emblem period)