Some coaches

The dreaded triplet dining car set- an old Cav'n'dish set bought at the N-Gauge Society AGM. At this time it was in two parts and had Farish BR bogies and some wheels missing. It has taken quite a while to get it this far- it is now sitting on NGS Gresley bogies. Some of the wheels are Farish pizza-cutters but will be exchanged for better ones when I can get hold of some (probably by cascading Farish ones from other coaches).

Still to do is to get the bits of underframe that dropped off replaced, replace a missing buffer or two, and put a corridoor connection between each car. Plus the important one of freeing up the articulation so that it follows curves, which it doesn't quite manage at present.






Another Gresley, a corridoor third. Again a Cav'n'dish model it has taken thirty years (yes, thirty) to get it built and running. The original Cav'n'dish bogies weren't exactly brilliant and fitting Rapido couplers to them proved a forlorn hope. As a result the coach and its partner spent over 20 years in the loft. Now fitted with NGS bogies (currently with pizza-cutter Farish wheels at present) and finally in service. A small amount of touching up still to do.

The track by the way is Tomix. Cheaper than Fleischmann and very good for a table-top test track or display purposes.