Mainline BR Maroon Coaches. Finally! 

Thanks for showing them running and appreciate the little loco and carriages running the other direction.

Always been a big fan of Mainline stuff; very nice for their age, the Mk1 buffet can still hold its own and their wagons are phenomenal.

They look great, have large number of mainline wagons, very detailed and spring couplings. Mallard and coaches look the business, fantastic look. So need a running session now but what will you run? Choices now so many choices..👍 all best marc

Always used Mainline coaches on my layout. They were the best in their day and still look pretty good. Sometimes a little bit of oil makes a difference to the noise

Nice Bill, nice, Mainline build a lovely coach the detail is amazing. I like the old Replica railway's wagons as well, I think that both makes can hold their own with a lot of today's rolling stock. Keep collecting love the videos. Eddy xx

Mainline rolling stock is great. I would probably replace the wheels with metal ones so you get the clickety clack. Mainline locos are the plague, avoid, unless you want grief from the split axles.

Fabulous Bill, thanks for sharing ATB.

Great buy. Yes the Mainline coaches are absolutely lovely. They were far better than the Hornby coaches of the same date. Mainline coaches always coupled up closer than the Hornby ones.

Yep, Lovely rake, and Mallard Great Choice for first Run out 👍🏻

Hi, my blue/grey mainline mk1, we're poor runners due to the wheels rubbing on the coach body, simple solution was to pack out the bogie to body with a fine washer. Total close coupling I once achieved with the use of a spring instead of the normal hook coupling.

I have three chocolate and cream ones that my Dad got me over 35 years ago now. Came out again just after Christmas when I was given leave to create a small proof of concept layout to test out all sorts of ideas. Still run well. Enjoy!

Hi Bill It had to be a A4 to pull your BR coaches,looked terrific too

Hi Bill, Nice choice.All the Best Brian

Do like the main coaches and wagons in the process of trying to find some thankyou for the video

Nice video! I will do this to my Mainline coaches, still have the prices on the boxes NZ $23.50, found a1986 Railway Modeller mag and these coaches were selling for from £6.00 to £7.00 in the UK, the exchange rate then was one New Zealand dollar = £0.674 converts in to £15.84 for each coach! Freight and import duty + high margins I assume!

I've always liked the Mainline coaches, and as others are saying, they still look good today even against more modern coaches.

I’ve only just found your videos (this one is now a year old) and started subscribing. I’ve got interested in your work as I finally got out my Hornby Dunlop 2 rail I had as a kid. I will definitely try some metal wheels as my nylon wheels must be tired and the few Fleischmanns I had with metal wheels always ran better. I’ve also bought some BR maroon coaches on leBay just as you have, but Dublo. It’s interesting to compare the two and I was particularly interested in your rightful concern about the coaches not being close enough, and adjusting the couplings. Now I’m wondering about the practicality ( and the morality!) of converting all my Dublo couplings to the hook type. I’ll ponder the morality but the Dublo couplings are riveted and I think the coach bogies are too. Have you any advice about compatibility of coupling heights and protrusion before I sacrifice a few trucks and experiment? Thanks a lot

I still like Mainline rolling stock. I’ve just bought a couple of GUV vans.

Always wondered why no one marketed realistic corridor coach connectors. It could be easily done with small magnets holding the connectors together.

Please could you run mallard with your Full rake of Mainline Coaches after all she is an Express Locomotive Cheers.Lewis

Awesome video mate ,, as you were going through the locos to pull the rake of 3 morone mainline coaches and im goin go the mallard go the mallard and yesss you picked the mallard ,, wooohoooo ,, as you might tell i like the mallards hahaha. Keep up the gr8 work m8

Have you done a video about your layout yet? I'd be very interested to see the whole thing. :)

Superb. Looks great with the Mallard too. Any issues on 1st radius curves with the closer coupled carriages?

I've been slowly acquiring rolling stock for a model railway. I have a number of those Hatchette Mk1s. I find the detail on them to be more than adequate. I can't afford to buy brand new these days. I'd happily settle for analogue control, and 1980s level of detail on rolling stock. Don't need the perfection they're selling these days.

three coaches behind Mallard - great - only another 13 to buy!! 😃😃😃

Mainline coaches are great . These are SKs though. Ie Second Corridors not Composite Corridors . Mainline I don’t think did first class , you probably need Bachmann for that .

I only have Mainline wagons no Mainline coaches yet...

Just found this video and it prompted me to examine a rake of Mainline I bought last year and found half the buffers missing. Do you know if the broken stubs pull out - I have tried tentatively??

I have seen someone fitting paper/plastic bellows between the coaches , Or I may have just imagined it all .Nope I saw some on ebay.

What does the C1 mean on the end of the carriage

Blood and custard look better

Have you tried the paper carriage joiners? They look the part but I don't know how long they last.

Easy mod. Job well done :)

Rhubarb and custard ,not blood

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