Metropolitan Railway 4 wheel coaches
2nd/3rd class
originally part of a twin set introduced in 1869 supplied by Oldbury Carriage Company.
11 first class, 9 second class and 4 third class.
They were in effect half sized versions of the 8 wheel carriages.
Originally connected permanently with centre buffer. These were replaced with conventional buffers and sets split up from 1879.
In servivce they wre used to test out various innovations. Fitted with low pressure gas reservoirs on roof originally.
None survived into electric era apart from six first class coaches converted into milk vans.
Light weight and poor running resulted in single carriages and the milk vans always being positions inside sets of 8 wheel coaches.
The milk vans wee scrapped in 1900 when new vans were introduced.
Requires finishing off, wheels etc
N scale(1/148)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway
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