Dapol have just announced a new run of their popular O Gauge LBSCR Stroudley 4-wheel coaches, this time focusing on SR lined green variations with electric lighting!
These new models will join the range alongside the existing LBSC mahogany and LBSCR brown liveried models. Dapol's Stroudley coaches are the perfect way to get started in O Gauge modelling - enabling you to recreate an accurate and quaint branch line passenger train in practically any space you might have.
Decrorated samples for their new models are currently under review by Dapol, with the final models expected in stock by the end of June 2025. All of Dapol's LBSCR Stroudley coaches are produced right here in the United Kingdom at their facility in Chirk.
SR Lined Green (Electric Lit) - Pre-Order Now
LBSCR Lined Brown (Gas Lit) - Pre-Order Now
LBSCR Mahogany (Oil Lit) - In Stock Now
Product Features
Digital capability & Light bar compatible (Factory fitted versions of each available)
Diecast compensated chassis for excellent riding characteristics
Superbly detailed body with many separately added detailed parts
Metal sprung buffers (outer end of brake only)
Expertly applied livery and decoration
Other Variations and Classes are available
Two lengths of close coupling bar will be offered with these coaches - A short coupling bar to be used with buffer free coaches and Billington (the successor engineer to Stroudey) conversion to buffers on one coach. A long coupling bar with be offered for converted main line coaches with buffers on both coaches.
All close coupled coaches will be able to negotiate R2 curves.
An ideal coach to be hauled by the Dapol Terrier Locomotives.
Prototype Information
These carriages were constructed between 1870 and 1890 totalling more than 1,500 for local and main line sets. The sets consisted of between eight and eleven coaches each 26ft long on a 15ft wheelbase and were originally close coupled with a bar but later some modified main line coaches were fitted with short buffers and amalgamated into the suburban sets, only the brake ends had long buffers.
Braking initially was only available through the guards hand brake, but later all coaches were fitted with Westinghouse air brakes. Lighting was originally by oil lamps, however many coaches were later converted to gas lighting, and from 1881 some sets were fitted with electric lighting with a dynamo in the brake coach.