KMRC Skrifa - Product Focus - EFE Rail - LSWR Cross Country sets OO Gauge

In this Skrifa post we focus on the all new LSWR non corridor Cross Country Coaches that are within the EFE Rail range.

There were 36 sets formed wholly of 56ft vehicles and these sets were generically called ‘Cross County sets’. They were constructed between 1906 and 1910 being built originally as 4 coach sets.

These sets comprised of the following:

• Brake Thirds, four compartment to LSWR Drawing 1446, SR diagram 124,  2 per set
• Composite  (1^st / 3^rd class), seven compartment, to LSWR Drawing 1298, SR Diagram 274
• Third LSWR Drawing 1302, SR Diagram 17, 8 compartment, (The all Thirds were originally introduced as 2^nd / 3^rd Composites but rebranded to all Thirds with no structural change by the end of 1919) 
  
  

The set numbers were in the ranges 130-151, 253-263 and 311-314 

All sets were reduced to three coaches in the mid to late 1930s by the removal of the 8 compartment Third Diagram 17 coaches which became loose stock. At the same time the number of first class compartments in the Composite, Diagram 274 was reduced from 5 to 3 (not a physical alteration just reclassification and change in class banding on the outside of the compartments).


Despite the longevity of these sets, apart from the reduction from 4 to 3 coaches and the reclassification of some of the composite compartments there was no real physical changes to any of the coaches.

In terms of use, they were seen all over the SW section of the Southern and their duties were pretty well interchangeable with any other 3/4 set. They did not generally run on Brighton or SE section lines, although photographic evidence exists of them running along the south coast to Brighton.

Withdrawal of these sets was completed during 1956/7 

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The EFE Rail Models

The EFE Rail brand from Bachmann utilises tooling produced from other third party companies such as ourselves at KMRC.
When we produced our original LSWR Gate Stock pull-push coach sets (which have now also been produced under the EFE Rail brand) it was always with the possibility of utilising some of the existing tooling, such as underframe and bogie parts, to produce the LSWR non corridor Cross Country Sets.

These new Cross Country Sets fetaure totally new tooling for the bodies, roofs, interiors and other underframe details.

We have now produced for EFE Rail both the earlier four coach sets in LSWR and SR Lined Olive and later 1930 onwards three coach sets comprising of a pair of the four compartment Brake Thirds, to LSWR Drawing 1446, SR diagram 124,  and the seven compartment Composite  (1^st / 3^rd class) to LSWR Drawing 1298, SR Diagram 274, ansd within the four coach sets the 8 compartment Third to LSWR Drawing 1302, SR Diagram 17, that are supplied a complete sets within a book style presentaion box.

They are ideal stock to run behind locos such as the Adams O2s, Drummond T9s, 700s or M7s and the Maunsell N Class.

E86011 EFE Rail LSWR Cross Country 4 Coach Pack - LSWR £237.99

E86012 EFE Rail LSWR Cross Country 4 Coach Pack - SR £237.9

E86013 EFE Rail LSWR Cross Country Set 253 SR Malachite Green £194.95

E86014 EFE Rail LSWR Cross Country Set number 130 BR Crimson £194.95

E86015 EFE Rail LSWR Cross Country Set number 314 BR (S) Green £194.95

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