Gerald Grudgings
Dai, good to hear from you. Probably I didn’t make the source very clear, but it was in the posting.
He is dcresinreplicas.co.uk or triangbuyer on ebay.
If you buy more than one item they are cheaper from his website after adjusting for post. The photos of the rooves don’t do them justice, will try to upload my sample photo later today. The interiors are available in brown, can be used as they come, the best option for the roof is grey and weather them to taste. It is hoped next to provide replacement trusses next, the originals are prone to breaking, these may have the gas tanks as separate so can be seen as electric or oil lit.
Many lines had coaches like this but usually without clerestory roofs, which although they looked good they cost more, leaked, and rotted! We have enough issues with our wooden body coaches here on the Talyllyn Railway so can empathise.
On a related tack you may be interested in another source. phfmodels on ebay. He is producing excellent 3Ds of 19C S.Wales prototypes. Up to now he has done numerous 6t wagons, now an excellent Pembroke & Tenby brake van and cattle van, also an early RR brake van. He is working on small RR coaches, and has produced the GWR O1 milk van (the original siphon) Body only for technical reasons. The complete vehicles as they come are supplied with 00 Chinese wheelsets. The flanges on these are too coarse for EM. He suggests that if need to regauge (there is room) it is best to place the vehicle in just-off-the-boil water for a few minutes to lessen the risk of the resin shattering. It is worth asking for without wheels, usual 26mm fit fine. He does not have a website.
Like many of these suppliers he is feeling his way, am sure this is the future for us “average modellers”. I am not a perfectionist, just like to achieve something in good time.