Bulleid Bournemouth Six-Coach Sets no: 290-300

£625.00£1,800.00

Bulleid sets 290-300 were colloquially known as the ‘Bournemouth six-coach sets’ or alternatively as the ‘Bournemouth dining sets’. Eleven sets of six-carriage fixed-formations (designed to minimise maintenance), used for premier express services, were completed just before railway nationalisation.

Individual carriages are priced at £625.00. If ordering a set, the price of each carriage is reduced to £600.00.

Bulleid Bournemouth Six-Coach Sets no: 290-300

Bulleid sets 290-300 were colloquially known as the ‘Bournemouth six-coach sets’ or alternatively as the ‘Bournemouth dining sets’. Eleven sets of six-carriage fixed-formations (designed to minimise maintenance), used for premier express services, were completed just before railway nationalisation. Built at Southern Railway’s Eastleigh Carriage Works, they entered service on the Waterloo-Bournemouth line (and sometimes on to Weymouth) from early 1948.

Sets 290 and 299 were mostly designated for Waterloo-Bournemouth West handling the day’s first dining working. Bournemouth six-coach sets were occasionally seen on the west of England route which largely remained the province of two- and three-coach sets, the tavern car sets and loose brake composites serving a variety of destinations, Lyme Regis, Seaton Junction and Sidmouth east of Exeter, Plymouth to the west, the rural and coastal idylls of the Withered Arm, and north to Ilfracombe. Shamrock Finescale three coach sets 770-793 were selected with this in mind.

Visually distinctive, the Bournemouth six-coach sets had coach bodysides extending from the gutter down over the carriage solebars, and were often referred to as ‘skirted’ sets. A number of fixed-formations were split up for operational reasons and strengthened with extra loose vehicles within the sets often for busy summertime traffic. Some survived in their original carriage combinations until the 1960s.

Set 293 became a three-coach set consisting of two brakes and composite carriage in 1964, but retaining its skirts, making it unique as the six-coach set offers railway modellers the option of a fixed set of three and the choice of the three other carriages for loose operation with Maunsell and BR Mk1s. None of the Bulleid six-coach sets lost their skirts throughout their operational lives, though in preservation several have had them removed.

Shamrock Finescale Bournemouth six-coach sets will be produced in three livery styles – Southern Railway malachite green, British Railways blood and custard livery (carmine and cream), and British Railways Southern Region green. Bulleid six-coach sets were originally painted in malachite green, but it appears the new British Railways Southern Region was reluctant to use the new standardised blood and custard (livery for all the Bournemouth six-coach sets). Opting to keep some of them in revarnished green finish, research suggests 290, 292, 295 and 296 lasted through the blood and custard era in malachite green, but with British Railways Gill Sans lettering and numbers.

Sets 291, 293, 294, 297, 298 and 300 all received blood and custard livery and all were repainted in BR Southern green between 1956 and 1959.

Set 299 was provided initially with the British Railways experimental livery – old style LNWR plum and off-white (nicknamed plum and spilt milk) – in June 1948 before later being repainted in blood and custard around 1953, and then BR Southern green after 1956.

Phase 1

Malachite green with green ends: Southern Railway lettering and numbers


BSK Semi-open BrakeCK Corridor CompositeBSK Semi-open Brake
No: 300436957504370

Customers requiring set no: 300 option must order with a deposit, as all others will be produced with black ends.

Malachite green with black ends: British Railways Gill Sans lettering and numbers


BSK Semi-open BrakeCK Corridor CompositeBSK Semi-open Brake
No: 290434957404350
No: 292435357424354
No: 295435957454360
No: 296436157464362

Blood and custard livery: BR Gill Sans lettering and numbers


BSK Semi-open BrakeCK Corridor CompositeBSK Semi-open Brake
No: 291S4351S5741S4352
No: 293S4355S5743S4356
No: 294S4357S5744S4358
No: 297S4363S5747S4364
No: 298S4365S5748S4366
No: 299S4367S5749S4368

Should there be sufficient customer interest we will also produce set no: 299 in British Railways experimental livery – old style LNWR plum and off-white (plum and spilt milk).

BR Southern green: BR Gill Sans lettering and numbers


BSK Semi-open BrakeCK Corridor CompositeBSK Semi-open Brake
No: 291S4351SS5741SS4352S
No: 293S4355SS5743SS4356S
No: 294S4357SS5744SS4358S
No: 297S4363SS5747SS4364S
No: 298S4365SS5748SS4366S
No: 299S4367SS5749SS4368S

Phase 2

Malachite green with green ends: Southern Railway lettering and numbers


RFO Corridor Dining 1stRT Kitchen & Dining 3rdTO Open Saloon 3rd
No: 300768778911461

Malachite green with black ends: British Railways Gill Sans lettering and numbers


RFO Corridor Dining 1stRT Kitchen & Dining 3rdTO Open Saloon 3rd
No: 290767778811451
No: 292767978831453
No: 295768278861456
No: 296768378871457

Blood and custard livery: BR Gill Sans lettering and numbers


RFO Corridor Dining 1stRT Kitchen & Dining 3rdTO Open Saloon 3rd
No: 291S7678S7882S1452
No: 293S7680S7884S1454
No: 294S7681S7885S1455
No: 298S7685S7889S1459
No: 299S7686S7890S1460

Should there be sufficient customer interest we will also produce set no: 299 in British Railways experimental livery – old style LNWR plum and off-white (plum and spilt milk).

BR Southern green: BR Gill Sans lettering and numbers


RFO Corridor Dining 1stRT Kitchen & Dining 3rdTO Open Saloon 3rd
No: 291S7678SS7882SS1452S
No: 293S7680SS7884SS1454S
No: 294S7681SS7885SS1455S
No: 298S7685SS7889SS1459S
No: 299S7686SS7890SS1460S

Carriage specifications

  • Meticulously researched using original drawings, image material and examples of preserved and modified stock.
  • Beautiful hand-made solid brass fine scale soldered construction ensuring superb body detail.
  • Interior LED carriage lighting.
  • Finished in long-lasting and robust oven-baked satin paint.
  • Ball bearing mounted axel boxes for free running bogies.
  • Solid stainless steel disc wheels with back-to-back set at 29 mm.
  • Conversion pack for standard/coarse scale Hi Rail wheels set at 27.5 mm.
  • Removeable carriage body so the interior can be accessed for the fitting of figures.
  • Roof coach boards commemorating famous express trains run with Bulleid stock.
  • Side mounted destination and route carriage boards.
  • Manufactured by Art Hobbies, Korea.

Two coupling types are provided: Buckeye couplings will be a standard on Bulleid coaches. A screw (drop) link coupling will be fixed on brake ends to allow connection with most manufacturer locomotive types. Additional conversion packs for screw (drop) link couplings, as well as additional buckeye couplings are available. Note the screw (drop) link coupling is suitable to align with ACE-style drop link couplings where the carriages are run with standard/coarse scale locomotives.

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