S&DR Smoking Carriage model
Stockton & Darlington Railway Smoking Carriage
S&DR Garter Crest Transfers close up

Stockton & Darlington Railway Smoking Carriage

Introducing a 1:43 scale O gauge multi-media kit comprising precision laser cut quality plywood body and chassis complete with fold up etched brass sprung ‘W’ iron suspension.  Lost wax metalwork and white metal seats are included to add weight to the vehicle.  Each bodyside comprise four layers of ply designed to accurately laminate together to create a rigid body which more unlikely to distort than many conventional laser kits. One layer allows cast acrylic coach glazing to slot inside – no super glue required! The kit also includes correct pattern Kitson wheels, couplings, sprung buffers, etc to create a beautifully accurate model that is fairly simple to assemble.

The kit also includes a specially designed waterslide transfer sheet suitable for this carriage and also pre-1899 North Eastern Railway sans serif liveries. Sufficient transfers are included for several NER vehicles HOWEVER the company crest is not included (available from HMRS).

See below for further details and prototype information.

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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
In 1871 the Stockton & Darlington Railway constructed two Smoking Carriages for use on the Stainmore line. As they were constructed after the NER absorbed the S&D they would have carried the later style S&D / NER garter crest.  One was numbered 221; the other coach number is not unknown but reviewing surviving records we estimate that they were probably 222. Both carriages ran in an attractive varnished teak livery with gold lining along  with distinctive large “SMOKING CARRIAGE” lettering and oil lamps unique to these vehicles.

The S&D operated independently to the NER until the death of its Railway Superintendent Thomas Bouch in 1876.  After this date it was finally absorbed into  the North Eastern Railway.  These vehicles probably continued to run in teak livery after 1876 until they were shopped and re-painted in standard NER crimson lake livery carrying new numbers 1660 and 1661.

Notably one of these coaches still survives today.  Heavily modified you will probably know it as ‘The Old Gentleman’s Saloon’ from the Railway Children film. This kit is for the original four-wheeled carriage; in NER days it was modified to a six-wheeled vehicle and later extended and put on bogies for use as an officer’s saloon when the original windows were squared off removing the carriage’s distinctive S&D look.

 

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