Great news! Dapol's incredible newly tooled range of GWR Churchward Toplight Corridor Coaches are now available to pre-order here at Rails! Shop now for £68 each.
Dapol have opened the project up to their network of stockists, enabling retailers to begin placing their pre-orders. This ensures that the project develops through a collaborative approach—bringing together modeller demand and retailer support in a way that has long underpinned the strength of the industry.
Dapol propose to produce a total of seven liveries: GWR Lined Crimson (1914), GWR Lined Chocolate & Cream (1925), GWR Chocolate and Cream Twin Cities (1930) GWR Chocolate & Cream Roundel (1935) GWR All Brown Twin Cities (1940), GWR Chocolate & Cream Great Western (1947) and finally BR Crimson & Cream.
Pre-Order Now - GWR Lined Crimson Lake (1914)
Pre-Order Now - GWR Lined Chocolate & Cream (1925)
Pre-Order Now - GWR Chocolate & Cream Twin Cities (1930)
Pre-Order Now - GWR Chocolate & Cream Roundel (1935)
Pre-Order Now - GWR Brown Twin Cities (1940)
Pre-Order Now - GWR Chocolate & Cream Great Western (1947)
Pre-Order Now - BR Crimson & Cream
Product Features
Bogie to have diecast frames with two stamped metal compensation beams enabling wheel bearing electrical pick-up using stub axles
Two styles of underframe truss rods
Diecast chassis framing
Couplings between coaches to be close coupled on a cam to negotiate R2 (438mm) curve trackwork with NEM pockets for magnetic couplings. Alternatively, the coaches can be used with NEM compatible customer supplied traditional couplings
Wheels designed for 00 gauge (16.5mm), but clearance for 18.2mm gauge wheels required, axles to be 26mm over end points
Sprung metal buffers
Coach sides are separate parts in ABS plastic
Gap free corridor connections to operate on R2 (438mm) curves
Decorated interior with separately fitted luggage rack in each passenger compartment
Separate shell ventilators fitted to roof, depending on period
Separate door and commode handles in metal
Destination boards provided separately for the modeller to adorn and fit
All coaches supplied with interior lighting
DCC Decoder plug and blanking plug
Prototype Information
The prototype coaches were constructed between 1914 and 1920 made of steel body sides with an absence of panelling but with bolection mouldings around the windows and frosted glass top light windows, sitting on Churchward 9’-0” bogies. They were designed to operate as a set comprising Left hand and right-hand Brake Thirds, 1 or 2-Thirds and left hand and right-hand Composites enabling all corridor windows to be displayed on the same side, commonly used for cross country and main line working between cities.
Prototype Specifications:
Dimension Prototype Model (1:76.2)
- Length of coach 56’-11.25” 227.75mm
- Width of coaches: 8’-11.25” 35.75mm
- Overall height: 12’-5.25” 49.75mm
Five versions as follows:
- All Third Diagram C32/35
- Composite Diagram E98 – L.H. & R. H. Types
- Brake Third Diagram D56 – L.H. & R. H. Types