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The Saloon Coaches are narrow gauge luxury bogie coaches.

Biography

The coaches were originally owned by the Mid Sodor Railway and used on its Boat Trains. As the Mid Sodor Railway declined, they were sold off to numerous buyers for use as summer houses, holiday chalets, henhouses, and garden sheds.

In 1959, the Thin Clergyman and the Fat Clergyman found one of these coaches being used as a summer-house in a garden in Harwick while on a walk. The two told the Owner and Mr. Peter Sam, who bought the coach and had it mended, given new wheels and painted in a matching chocolate brown livery to the Talyllyn Railway's coach, as they were made by the same people. The coach was finished just in time for Skarloey and Rheneas' 100th birthday in 1965, so Skarloey used the coach to bring the Duke of Sodor to open the Lakeside loop line.[1]

Technical Details

Basis

The Saloon Coaches are based on some of the Corris Railway's bogie carriages, one of which was built in 1898 and is now owned by the Talyllyn Railway, while a few replicas were built for the Corris Railway when it was reopened in 2002.

On Wilbert Awdry's OO9 scale Mid Sodor layout, the coaches originally sported a different appearance with enclosed balconies at each end. These were made from Egger Bahn OEG "Fiery Elias" tram coaches. The coaches were later cut down to more closely match the saloons used by the Corris Railway.

Livery

The Saloon Coaches are painted brown with gold lining.

On the Mid Sodor Railway, these coaches were originally painted light blue. They had gold and red lettering with the company's initials, M S, on the sides, as well as numbering for first and third class compartments.

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The Railway Series

Main Series

Miscellaneous

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