HORNBY HAS BEEN providing top quality passenger rolling stock for over a decade now, but 2019 is set to be a bumper year for steam modellers with two sets of suburban vehicles coming through to suit Western and Southern region layouts.
First to arrive during March were the Great Western Railway (GWR) Collett designed bow- end non-corridor stock. These 57ft carriages are being released in GWR chocolate and cream and BR maroon liveries with a choice of eight in each colour scheme. These can be formed into realistic four-car sets to create correct formation suburban trains for Western area layouts.
The GWR’s new Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett, developed bow-end carriages to reduce the length of corridor connections between vehicles. The new stock was clad with steel panels and had a higher waistline than the previous Churchward era ‘Toplight’ stock. The range included both corridor and non-corridor bow-end vehicles to a variety of designs, with standard vehicles being built on a 57ft long underframe running on distinctive 7ft bogies.
Hornby produced the corridor versions of the Collett bow-end carriages in 2016 (HM106) and this new collection of non-corridor vehicles have a familiar feel to t…
