Heljan's newly tooled range of BR Mk2 Coaches are due to arrive in stock during November 2024!
This exciting new range of highly detailed Mark 2 and Mark 2A coaches fills a massive gap for O Gauge modellers and provides you with plenty of opportunities for reproducing accurate trains from the 1970s to the 2010s!
A wide variety of vehicle types have been modelled enabling you to build an authentic train in your chosen region.
The entire range has now arrived at Heljan and our stock is expected to arrive in the next week or so.
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Product Features
Detachable magnetic roof
Exquisitely detailed and decorated interiors for all versions
Separately fitted seats, tables and luggage racks
Sprung Buffers
Fully functional drophead buckeye couplers
Light Bar Ready
Customer-fit gangway & underframe parts to finish vehicles as vacuum-braked Mk2z or air-braked Mk2a
Finely detailed decoration appropriate to vehicle/livery - including authentic period window destination labels on NSE, Trans-Pennine and ScotRail vehicles.
Prototype Information
The Mark 2 family of railway carriages are British Rail's second generation of coaching stock. They were built by British Rail workshops between 1964 and 1975 and were of a steel construction. The Mark 2 has a semi-integral construction, giving it more strength than a Mark 1 in the event of an accident. A key driver of the changed construction method was to overcome the serious corrosion problem point in the Mark 1 at the base of the body, where it was attached to the underframe.
The original Mk2s featured pressure ventilation, wood panelling and vaccuum brakes so that they could work with Mk1 stock. Mk2As were fitted with air-brakes and different gangways. Mk2B coaches omitted the centre door and had wide wrap-around doors at the ends. Finally the Mk2Cs featured a lowered ceiling with provision for air conditioning that wasn't fitted. Later, further variations were produced covering D, E and F variants.
The Mark 2 coach was one of the mainstays of the InterCity network, but new rolling stock introduced in the post-privatisation era has resulted in most being withdrawn.