When I created the artwork for the body side the coach number printed was 440. This identifies a coach from the first batch of 6 manufactured that were fitted with coil spring bogies rather than the later and more common leaf spring types.I did not wish to scratch build the bogies, which are quite complex, so I looked around for r.t.r examples. A trawl around the web revealed how rare these are. I was fortunate in finding on Ebay a damaged coach from the old ROCO range that had two good bogies very close in style to that required.
They are about a foot too short in the wheelbase, which I can live with (no one will spot that in 'n' gauge!) and the coupler protrudes further than normal but as there is no corridor connection the increased gap between rolling stock can be tolerated.
The photo shows a dummy fit of a bogie before the underframe was fitted. The underframe is the subject of the next posting in this series.
To Part 1
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