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Hornby R4549B GWR E140 B Set Brake Composite 6371

Hornby R4549B GWR E140 B Set Brake Composite 6371.

The B-set coaches of the Great Western Railway were non-corridor brake composite coaches arranged in pairs, with the brake compartments outermost, for suburban and branch line working. They were designed by Charles Collett.

The livery of early carriages was a dark chocolate brown but from 1864 the upper panels were painted white which became a pale cream after being varnished and exposed to the weather. These panels were later painted in cream to give a similar effect. From 1908 carriages were painted chocolate brown all over but this changed to a red lake colour in 1912. A two-colour livery reappeared in 1922, now with a richer shade of cream on the upper panels and chocolate brown below. Certain vehicles such as parcels vans and horse boxes, which were allowed to run in passenger trains, were often painted in just chocolate brown when the passenger carrying coaches were in chocolate and cream, and so this non-passenger carrying coaching stock came to be known as "brown vehicles".

No B-sets have been preserved, but a flavour of them is on the Llangollen Railway who have a couple of non-corridor coaches billed as a "B-set".

This model is 242mm (length) and decorated in GWR Chocolate & Cream livery.

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Specifications

1:76 Scale
OO Gauge
Era: 3 (1923 - 1947)
Ready assembled
GWR
Pristine
New
Brand: Hornby
Hornby
RRP: £ 29.99
Our price: £ 26.94
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