AlecWilliamFry Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 With all the A4s that are available don't you think it would be nice to have the proper coaches? I am talking about the articulated silver sets for the Jubilee and the double-blue ones for the Coronation. (I am trying to be more authentic with the coaches on my layout)Alec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaj Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 If you look hard enough you will proboly find some, the silver coaches at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Hi,It's a lovely thought but I suspect we will be saying the same thing 10 years time. The attitude seems to to be that the locos are the glamour which brings in the money whereas coaches are just something to put behind the locos - it doesn't matter if they match.Of course Silver, Green and Blue A4s hauled 'normal' trains in Teak so you can still have your authentic trains.Regret to say Jacob is being wildly optomistic - the blue coaches have never been made and the silver ones which were supposed to go with the silver A4 were ordinary LMS coaches painted silver. Hardly authentic!!AlecWilliamFry said:With all the A4s that are available don't you think it would be nice to have the proper coaches? I am talking about the articulated silver sets for the Jubilee and the double-blue ones for the Coronation. (I am trying to be more authentic with the coaches on my layout)Alec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 AlecWilliamFry said:With all the A4s that are available don't you think it would be nice to have the proper coaches? I am talking about the articulated silver sets for the Jubilee and the double-blue ones for the Coronation.Sign me up for two A+B sets along with the beaver tail observation car in sky blue + Garter blue as suitable for the Coronation. This set is the reason that A4s were painted Garter blue in the first place! I'd even buy a Garter blue A4 to go withthem.The Silver Jubilee sets would also be good for modellers of Mallard's record run. I could well be wrong but I understand that along with the dynamometer car, the record run was made with two A+B sets from the Jubilee stock.Thejubilee and Coronation sets are listed in the MREmag poll every year, but relatively few people vote for them. The Quad-art teak suburban sets are much more popular with the voters. They certainly are more work-a-day but to me don't have the elan of the expressstock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I submitted a reply to this thread a day ago, and it is still not posted. Perhaps I messed up but I'm pretty confident that I didn't violate any rules. It's frustrating to have to wait until working hours in the UK for a post to be reviewed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Hi OzexSuggest you try it again with the wording slightly changed. I'm going on holiday at 0700 tomorrow, so I hope to see it before I go, although I doubt if SWMBO will let me come on the forum tomorrow before we leave.Ozexpatriate said:I submitted a reply to this thread a day ago, and it is still not posted. Perhaps I messed up but I'm pretty confident that I didn't violate any rules. It's frustrating to have to wait until working hours in the UK for a post to be reviewed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete007 Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 AlecWilliamFry said:With all the A4s that are available don't you think it would be nice to have the proper coaches? I am talking about the articulated silver sets for the Jubilee and the double-blue ones for the Coronation. (I am trying to be more authentic with the coaches on my layout)Alec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete007 Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Hi Guys,Well at least you get excellent detailed coaches for your stream loco's. Think about us Diesel guys we got a excellent HST power cars, to put with out of date MK3 coaches. It would not take much to improve them (well the Hornby one's not ex Lima's). Tinted windows, NEM close coupling, improved gangway ends, lighting and separate handrails, oh and a new TGS. These coaches will be around for years to come, so would be nice to have them looking good with the power cars. I am sure it will not belong before someone else gets round to producing them.Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaj Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Just incase you can't find the silver ones, sometimes I think the silver locomotives just ran with the usual LNER Teak coaches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Jacob, I said that two days ago. A4s in Blue, Green and Silver all ran with trains of teak coachesbocaj said:Just incase you can't find the silver ones, sometimes I think the silver locomotives just ran with the usual LNER Teak coaches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Unless they were the articualted silver coaches of the Silver Jubilee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlecWilliamFry Posted June 25, 2011 Author Share Posted June 25, 2011 Its a shame they don't focus more on the coaches, to be honest coaches are possibly my favourite part of a train.And as far as the teak coaches go, I plan on getting some of those and does anyone know if LNER trains pulled Pullman coaches ever.Alec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 They certainly did. Google "lner/pullman car company". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Postman Prat said:Hi OzexSuggest you try it again with the wording slightly changed. I'm going on holiday at 0700 tomorrow, so I hope to see it before I go, although I doubt if SWMBO will let me come on the forum tomorrow before we leave.Ozexpatriate said:I submitted a reply to this thread a day ago, and it is still not posted. Perhaps I messed up but I'm pretty confident that I didn't violate any rules. It's frustrating to have to wait until working hours in the UK for a post to be reviewed.I'm guessing that it might have been my reference to a large aquatic rodent with a flat tail for swimming that is native to much of the northern parts of North America that caused my post to be held.The post is there now, though none of the formatting/emphasis has survived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 poliss said:Unless they were the articualted silver coaches of the Silver Jubilee.Well yes, I think the point of this thread is to lobby for the articulated Silver Jubilee, Corornation and West Riding coach sets.Since they are a two-coach A+B set, even shorter rakes are easy to put together and longer rakes only require a name change. Arguably, it's easier for Hornby to model three different units: A+B and observation car (I'll decline to describe it's shape) than for example the six different Hawksworth outlines:o Gangway brakeo Brake Thirdo Composite Brakeo Firsto Thirdo Composite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choobacca Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 This is the first time I've heard of the Coronation Beavertail coach. I can't believe how good the original streamlined version looks, especially in the silver and two tone blue colour scheme.Perhaps my eyes are deceiving me, but is the real LNER Garter Blue a little more blue in real life than the Hornby Garter Blue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Don't forget the cinema coach, or the barber shop coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Hi PolissI think you'll find both of these vehicles were part of the Flying Scotsman set, rather than the streamliners. If I've misunderstood you, I apologise but I've spent the best part of the evening catching up on herepoliss said:Don't forget the cinema coach, or the barber shop coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trainspotter7634 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 The last time Hornby did the Silver Jubilee, they used the wrong coaches, the 75 Anniversary of the Silver Link would have been a great time to launch a new line of the coaches. I do think Hornby should offer newer and better Silver Jubilee coaches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brclass125 Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Hi all,I haven't posted on here for quite a while. Ozexpatriate, it was actually the Coronation set that was behind Mallard's record run without the observation coach, but with a teak Dynomometer car which is preserved in the National Rail Museum in York.I do not think we will see these coaches in OO r-t-r form due to there limited time frame. If you want a set of Silver Jubilee Articulated or Coronation coaches you will have to kit build them. I have built the Silver Jubilee set from the obsolete Mailcoach kit and recently finished buying the Coronation Set from the same manufacturer. The Coronation set is available in etched brass too, but too heavy for Hornby A4s.MArk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 brclass125 said:Ozexpatriate, it was actually the Coronation set that was behind Mallard's record run without the observation coach, but with a teak Dynomometer car which is preserved in the National Rail Museum in York.I had recollected that the picture I saw did not have two-tone coaches. This picture proves otherwise: http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/22422/MallardRecord2.jpgYou are correct - it is the Coronation set. Thanks for pointing that out.brclass125 said:I do not think we will see these coaches in OO r-t-r form due to there limited time frame. The limited time frame makes no never mind for "specials" like premier trains. With all the numbering changes, almost any LNER livery has an equally limited time frame anyway. In revenue service, Mallard wore the number 4468 for no more than eight years. (It has been 4468 in preservation for much, much longer!)There has been a big trend in the US to model accurate formations of express trains over the last ten years. The notion that this does not apply to the British market because the US market is so much bigger is nonsense. The US market is even more fragmented than the British market by region - particularly before the megamergers of the most recent decades. I don't model the LNER, but I would certainly purchase Mallard in garter blue with a matching Coronation set - just because. Sure, kits are available and kudos to those who attempt them. I won't be able to achieve the quality I want by building kits. Regrettably, my talents do not lie in that direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony57 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 HiDid anyone see the review in the April 2014 Hornby Magazine of the Golden Age Silver Jubilee 7 coach articulated coach set they have resently brought out. It being a twin triple twin setWhy can't Hornby bring out their own limited edition version of this severn coach set with a reissue of one of the 4 silver A4s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Did you see the price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 How much would you be willing to pay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 £2898 for 7 coaches, wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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