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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:
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

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

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.

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

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