4mm coach kits and non-passenger-carrying coaching stock ('brown vehicles')

This list is in diagram order, and includes Non-Passenger Carrying Coaching Stock (NPCCS, 'brown vehicles'). Confusingly, firsts and autotrailers take the same diagram letter A. All vehicles are bogie unless otherwise stated. Steam Railmotors and Diesel Railcars are shown on the locos page. Fish trucks and Fruit vans, including those becoming 'brown vehicles', are included in the wagons listing. This listing is for GWR vehicles only – for absorbed companies, see their separate pages. More Broad Gauge vehicles can be found on the Broad Gauge Society site.

Some of these are not complete kits.

Except for Phoenix Kits ² and Westdale ³ kits, which have punched aluminium sides, and Trevor Charlton sides, which are etched zinc, the principal material is etched brass unless otherwise stated. The very old wooden kits by Ratio, CCW and Kings Cross are not included in this listing.

*  denotes date shown is the rebuild date, and 'also BG' indicates a broad gauge version can also be made.

Corridor fitting: all A series diagram Firsts, C series Thirds, D series Brake Thirds, and E series Brake Composites are corridor unless otherwise stated, with the exception of the A diagram autotrailers, which are Open Saloons. All 4- and 6-wheel vehicles are non-corridor.

Body lengths are over corner pillars – bow ends usually add 1'2" or 1'4" for the overall body length (excluding gangway connectors where present). For Collett stock during the bow-ended ear (1923–30), FE = flat end and BE = bow end.

Right- and left-hand conventions:

• A r/h van is a coach with the van at the right hand end when viewed from the corridor side. A l/h van is the converse.
• A composite coach is r/h where the the first class end is on the right when viewed from the corridor side. A l/h composite is where the first class end is at the left when viewed from the corridor.
• A right-hand third with one bow end and one flat end has the bow end on the right when viewed from the corridor side. A left-hand third is the opposite.

My thanks to Adrian Wintle and Mike Wiltshire (and others) for help in compiling this listing.

¹  These D&S kits are available from time to time from Brassmasters.
²  GWR Phoenix kits are no longer listed on the Southern Railways Group website, and are assumed to have been withdrawn.
³  Pending identification of their diagram numbers, the Westdale Hawksworth autotrailer, 57' suburban third, 57'1st/3rd Restaurant and bow-end B-set are not yet included in the list.
⁴  The 'Bettabitz' sides fit the long Hornby bogie Clerestories (see the 4mm RTR coach listing).
⁵  Drawings in October 1968 Model Railway Constructor.
⁶  The PC Kits were made available in three liveries – 1912-22 crimson lake, 1922-27 lined chocolate and cream and 1927-34 simplified chocolate and cream.