Bachmann Bulleid Coaches
The Bachmann Bulleid coaches arrived in 1993. Airfix had got as far as producing the
drawings and some sample models before the company went into liquidation. These would have
been released in 1981, if circumstances had been different. Palitoy were about to
introduce three types of Bulleid coach in 1985 but, again, closedown of production
prevented this. With Bachmann, it was 'third time lucky' for the Bulleid stock. Here we
have new examples of the brake and composite vehicles, both in BR coach green. The brake
2nd (34-504A) is numbered 'S3975S' and the composite (34-554A) is numbered 'S5850S'.
Although designed by Bulleid's Southern Railway design team, prior to nationalisation of the railways, they arrived too late to run in SR livery. Instead, they started life in BR carmine and cream and, from 1956, they started to be painted green. The subsequent standard Mk1 coaches eventually made by British Railways owed much to the 'Bulleids' in design.