Help needed finding a carriage

[DickBrowne]

Please forgive me if this is the wrong place for this topic, but it didn’t seem to fit anywhere else.

I am currently in the planning phase for my first layout, and the location seems fitting:

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It’s an old carriage from our local steam line - Newport Nobby - which ran from my home town of Newport Pagnell to the local railway town, Wolverton. We were told when we moved into the house, 20-odd years ago, that it had been in l-ovation for around 100 years, and the fact that my dad remembers playing in it as a small child, and that it was there before the house was built in 1937 supports that claim.

Now here’s the thing. I would like to include on my layout a house with a railway carriage grounded in the garden, and I’d like to have it look like mine, but I can’t find anything that looks the same.

It’s a two-door, two-compartment carriage, with a central roof dome for ventilation. Total length is around 20 feet.

Does anybody know where I may find something similar?

Thank you

Richard

[glencairn]

Richard, Elisabeth Brown mentions the coach - two thirds down article.

https://mkpulse.co.uk/the-end-of-the-li ... 2734375000

I cannot help directly, but getting a second hand coach and cutting it to size and rebuilding it to look like?

Glencairn

[RAF96]

Have a look at Rapidotrains.co.uk new dynamometer car which although a tad longer is suggestive of the basic coach design and early 1928 era and as such may get you into the ball park with finding the shortie version.

[Walkingthedog]

How about something like this to convert.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281886277154 ... 1543442579


Or this


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185604369392 ... SwGiJjOseB

[DickBrowne]

Thank you for the suggestions - at the moment those Ratio carriages are looking like they may be a good match. There’s one available for £9 on the links supplied by walkingthedog, so I may splash out on that and see where it goes.

Funnily enough, glencairn, the Elisabeth Browne in the article you linked is my daughter! That was published a few years back and she was quite miffed when they miss-spelt her name

Thanks again

Richard