What coaches compliment a Hornby A4?

[WrongWayMurphy]

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I live in Texas, and purchased a Hornby A4,the Woodcock, for a friend and fellow modeler’s birthday. He is from Yorkshire and is a fan of LNER. I installed a Loksound decoder, and he just loves the locomotive but now needs coaches behind the lokie.

Who makes appropriate coaches for the run from Kings Cross to Edinburgh on LNER in OO scale ? Attached photo on my layout in Tyler, Texas shows the A4 4493 along Southern Pacific’s Sunbeam 652 of the same 4-6-2 arrangement. Our locomotives use headlights as there are numerous street crossings at grade. I am quite impressed with the Hornby model, though it is very lightweight compared to the brass HO scale Sunbeam engine of the Southern Pacific.

Shane Murphy
Tyler, Tex.

[Mike Parkes]

LNER Teak Gresley Coaches. Made also by Hornby
There is a new batch due
R4826 Corridor Composite
R4827 Corridor First
R4828 Corridor Third
R4829 Corridor Buffet
R4830 Full Brake
Alternates are the older Railroad models
R4332 Corridor Composite
R4333 Corridor Brake Composite

Also 1928 Pullman cars - these are
R4660 3rd Kitchen
R4661 3rd Parlour
R4662 3rd Brake
R4663 1st Kitchen
R4664 1st Parlour
Again older Railroad models exist
R4312 Parlour
R4313 parlour Brake

[brian1951]

Excellent detailed reply.

[hblmadt]

Thompson coaches would look okay with engine made by both hornby and bachmann in his version of teak

[Mountain Goat]

If you are not too fussed about fine detail ( In which these are actually not bad), the older Hornby LNER coaches can be found at exceptionally good prices for what they are. The only reason why they go so cheap is that Hornby made so many of them.

[LC&DR]

Small point of accuracy.

Gresley coaches in teak livery are generally OK. These were built before World War 2.

Thompson coaches were built after World War 2 .

The A4 Pacifics were originally painted either silver, blue or green. however the silver and green ones were all painted blue before World War 2 so a LNER green one would not have worked with a Thompson carriage.

During the War most of the A4s were painted plain black.

After the War all the A4s were painted LNER blue again.

From 1949 some A4s were painted in BR blue, these were all eventually repainted in BR dark green.

[Mike Parkes]

Thompson coaches would look okay with engine made by both hornby and bachmann in his version of teak

Not correct with the model of 4493 Woodcock though as by the time they were introduced the skirting covering the motion had been removed and the loco possibly repainted in unlined black.

[hblmadt]

All true but if not too fussed about being accurate thompsons look fine with any a4 in teak