Hello all I'm having a bit of a clean out and I have this rake of ten carriages I'm letting go. Anyone interested in making an offer. Thanks

I can't believe that a site with the amount of traffic this one has, yet no one is interested enough to at least make an offer. 

Patience and good manners, dear boy, work much better!

 Respectfully,

Bill

Merely an observation, my man. Quite happy to keep them if no one is interested. Regards John 

Hi John,

Problem is that these are the ones with colored plastic "teak", the later offerings are much better. The LNER modelers I know keep clear of them. 

That said, they make good resources for bashing, repainting, line side bodies, house backs, sheds, camping coaches, freight wagons, full brakes, engineers coach, cafes, derilicts, hay stores on concrete blocks, preservation railway rusting hulks…

Nigel

Some very good suggestions there Nigel. Will keep them in mind.Regards John 

Hi John,

There are (was?) villages along the ECML that have old railway coaches used for the basis of holiday homes/cottages/cabins. Found some:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/edp-property/this-converted-pair-of-railway-carriages-up-for-auction-could-be-your-new-home-for-50-000-1-3838179

And this one:

sutton on sea railway cottages

Real re-purposing. You have a potential village there! "Coaches End". Don't forget the pub.

Nigel

There's always that internet auction site 


 




Ed

As Nigel says John, the later offerings are so much better at representing the teak that it's all but killed demand for the older models.

When all said and done, by far the most visual impact with Gresley's LNER coaches was the teak finish (and maybe  the classic "wavey" bogies but they're easy to reproduce).

I model LNER (ish……….) but wouldn't buy that era of coach model.  They are much better than the even older "gold/brown" models but nowhere near as good as the latest ones.

Asking for offers might upset you - far better for you to put your price on them and see what happens.

There's an old addage - "one can't be both a buyer and a seller" ………………………

Well, thank you all for your comments. I've actually been inspired by some of the suggestions for the carriages, and to be honest I wasn't aware of the quite low value of these. So I think I will hang on to them and do a bit of a re-purpose job on them at some point.Regards John