Upgrading the Hornby/Triang Clerestory Coaches - SWAS Episode 24 

That’s a nice job and well presented 👍🏻😎🚂

I too, bought two, in the 1960s when any fairly realistic carriage was rare. This century I converted them to the 7 compartment Diagram C12 of 1897 and the brake version D21 ( long brake and four 3rd class compartments). I substituted Hornby (mock) Dean suspended bogies which were an unpleasant nylon plastic to widen as I was fitting Gibson EM axles. They were painted all-over GWR wartime brown with offset GWR crest.

1:55 Get it gone(!) Be GONE with you!!! D: :3

Great job, thanks for sharing.

Nice work! I used two to create a 2-car LSWR set - 42' + 45' brakes - a lot of razor saw work - new, non-clerestory [usually pronounced clear-story BTW] roof - SR green one side, BR crimson the other! Very versatile carriages - noted the bracelet - WWJ have done with these carriages? 😉

Hi Scooby. I’m sure that it's somewhere on the GWR website that a modeller converted an 8 compartment Triang non-corridor Clerestory Coach into a 9 compartment coach. It was a while ago that I spotted the article but what he did was to cut off the end of one of his coaches, then cut off the end of a donor coach but with one compartment attached. He then 'smoothed' down the ends and joined them together to make a 9 compartment Clerestory Coach (or, as they say in the 'hooky' side of the car trade, 'cut & shut'). I know it's a bit late now as you must have finished your upgrading, but I thought I'd point it out anyway. 👍 Paul.

Great inspiration for my railway!

Love this!

great video!

That was interesting and entertaining, might be lockdown but I've got 8, would die of old age before I had that patience, well done. Glynn

Footboards...

Thanks for this video. I have lined up a rake to be super detailed. Once you got the centre screw out, how on earth did you get the roof off? There doesn't appear to be any slack in the end clips. Please can you share the secret? Many thanks.

Great work! I’ve got a bunch of these but they’re really old and have through-axel bogies on them (yuck) did you try putting brass bearings in any like that?

Very inspiring but can you tell me how you painted the door handles so finely? Many thanks Gary