Bulleid coaching stock

Prototype
Operating company/organisation	Southern Railway BR Southern Region BR Scotland Region Bluebell Railway
Years of operation

number from set constructed withdrawn notes 5751 770 1946 1968 1 130 Loose 1950 1968 2 4279 820 1949 1966 3 Notes 1. Sister coach 5768 was preserved at the Bluebell Railway between 1976 and 1993 but is now awaiting restoration. 2. Coach 130 was a corridor third, whereas the model carrying this number is an open third of 1950/51 construction. 3. Preserved at the Bluebell Railway and in service there from 1970 onwards.

Model
Manufacturer	Fleischmann
Model details

cat. no. representing type photo price (MAR07) availability 5146 5751 1st+3rd (Corridor composite CK) 5146 OnTracks: £26.24 1977 - 2006+ 5147 130 (in error) 3rd 5147 OnTracks: £26.24 1977 - 2006+ 5148 4279 3rd+baggage (Semi Open Brake Third) 5148 OnTracks: £26.24 1977 - 2006+

Construction	Assembled, plastic with metal parts. Scale length. Interior details. Self-coloured green body shell with black-painted ends. Window glazing is not flush, but the body thickness is commendably thin so a near-realistic impression is given. Hand rails and door levers are picked out in gold paint. Reporting numbers and lining are printed onto the body and glazing as necessary. A large choice of set numbers (see below) is provided on a separate sheet as press-on decals. Provision is made for the official Fleischmann interior lighting set (see below). Livery is British Railways green, the post-1959 colour. The model was first produced in 1977. There were later assembly runs with very minor changes: the bogie pivots were changed from plastic push-fit bushes to metal screws; Fleischmann Profi couplers were fitted as standard; the box inserts were changed to standard items, omitting the instructions for using the set numbers and including instructions for the wrong type of coupler mount.
Set numbers	"The coaches #5146, #5147 and #5148 come with a choice of 'set' numbers. These were normally shown on the first and last coaches of a 'set' as it was Southern practice to run coaches in a permanent 'set' rake." But unfortunately it is not possible to assemble an historic set from the Fleischmann coaches. Coach numbers 5751 and 4279 were never together in a set. They are also from different production batches, so even renumbering them does not provide a solution. Coach 130 was "loose" and never in a set, but was in any case a corridor third, not the open third depicted by the model. You could renumber the latter into the series 1451-1461, which were in set nos. 290-300, or into the series 1462-1506, which were loose. If you are prepared to overlook these discrepencies, the available set configurations are: set nos. Fleischmann coaches notes 770-793 5148+5146+5148 1 795-829 5148+5146+5148 1 830-837 5148+5146+5148 1 838-849 5148+5147+5146+5147+5148 1 850-865 5148+5146+5148 2 1. Liveries: Southern Railway Malachite (green) until 1959; British Railways green from 1959. 2. Livery: British Railways crimson & cream. To see the coach numbers that made up a particular set, see the Southern Railway coaching stock register.
End doors	Each coach should come with a push-fit gangway end door, for fitting to the ends of a rake.
Interior lighting	Interior lighting set #6448 (OnTracks: £8.50 APR04) Bulb #9530 The interior lighting set comprises a coach-length printed circuit board, a coach-length clear plastic lighting conduit (which can be snapped shorter to fit the interiors of the different coach types), bulb, reflecting tape, insulating tape, two metal U brackets, two spring-metal pickups to collect current from both sets of wheels, and replacement bogie pivot screws.
Couplings	Coaches #5146, #5147 and #5148 take the following Fleischmann slot couplings. Profi slot coupling Hook-type slot coupling Loop-type slot coupliing Kadee state the following: "Most Fleischmann cars and locomotives that do not have 'NEM' coupler pockets will use the #39 coupler mounted on the original pin or screw hole." See www.kadee.com and Model Junction (who stock Kadee).
Decals	Cambridge Custom Transfers - Sheet BL32 BR Southern Region set numbers - Sheet BL34 BR coach window labels (FIRST, NO SMOKING, SECOND, LADIES ONLY)

British 1:87 Scale Modelling