Following on from the blue Flying Scotsman, we now have a rake of the blue (and silver) Coronation Scot coaches hauled, not by a Coronation Class steam locomotive, as we do not have one (yet), but by the blue Diesel Prototype DP1, aka Deltic, whose blue (and grey) livery almost matches that of the coaches.
This Bachmann model of Deltic has the Catalogue Nº 32-520 and was produced exclusively for the National Railway Museum in York.
She is a beautiful model and has been fitted with a Howes sound decoder, meaning she sounds just as good as she looks!
Immediately behind the loco is this Hornby Brake / 1st Class corridor coach.
This, I believe, is a modified version of R423 (see below), which has been renumbered 5053 and reclassified from the original Brake / 3rd Class coach.
Next is a full 1st Class corridor coach with the Running Nº 1070 and Catalogue Nº 422.
Now for a bit of an oddball in the form of a suitably liveried Kitchen Car.
This has clearly been custom built from a coach of the correct length and, although the blue does not quite match that of the other coaches, it is nice to have a kitchen car in the rake since there definitely would have been one yet Hornby have never actually produced one.
It was, apparently, quite a bit shorter than the rest of the coaches!
Following the Kitchen Car is a second Full 1st Class corridor coach, currently with the same Running Nº 1070.
Here we have another full 1st Class corridor coach but this one has the Running Nº 1071. Its Catalogue Nº is R4128C so this is a slightly more recent model.
Bringing up the rear, for the moment, is this Brake / 3rd Class corridor coach. It is a renumbered version of this that is now the Brake / 1st Class coach, above.
The Running Nº is 5792 and its Catalogue Nº is R423.
Finally we see the complete train entering, an otherwise deserted, Gunnmere Junction as it heads south.
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