Hornby RailRoad LNER Gresley Coaches

Before the arrival of the super-detailed Gresley coaches in 2004, Hornby were making a series of less realistic Gresley passenger stock that they had introduced to the catalogue in 1977 and 1978. While these have much of the iconic character of the real coaches, they lacked the finer detail and the teak effect was produced by a chemical reaction in the plastic and so they were self-coloured. Production of these much cheaper Gresley coaches has continued for use in cheaper train sets but now they have been added to the RailRoad budget range as solo models.