BR MK1 Coaches/Behind the Scenes

The Railway Series
The BR MK1 Coaches are based on the real-life rolling stock.

They first appeared in The Railway Series book, Gordon the Big Engine, which was published in 1953. Their last appearance was in Wilbert the Forest Engine, published in 1994.

Illustrations of The Coaches:

Television Series
In 1998, the coaches were introduced in the fifth series. Their last appearance was in the eleventh series in 2007.

Types of designs in the Model era:

Gauge 1 models
The express coaches' original models were custom built from Tenmille kits for Gauge 1 BR MK 1 Coaches. The bogie came from Tenmille parts.

Close-up models
A close-up model of the coaches were built to be used for scenes where they had to interact with the close-up scale figures.