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GWR 4 Wheel 3rd Class 5 Compartment Coach Kit

00 Gauge

These coaches were constructed between 1890 and 1902, and were used in the more rural parts of the system. They are ideal for the sleepy branchline termini so often modelled.

By the late 1930s they were strictly ‘backwater’ vehicles, used for mundane tasks like workmen’s trains in South Wales, often with the 1st class sections downgraded to 3rd. This practice continued until the early 1950s, whilst others became ‘camping coaches’ in the 1930s or were grounded (kit 201).