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Looks like Digital Traction are releasing something shortly. They have just put a teaser on their twitter account. http://twitter.com/#!/digitaltraction

SR coaches? Maunsells?

maddog989 wrote:SR coaches? Maunsells?

Yep, I reckon so

Not the loco?

Hmm Stanier loco and Green coaches, don't really match to be honest So I reckon its a coach addon Hope it comes with a new loco
Regards
Edward

LM engines and Southern coaches sounds like Somerset & Dorset.....

Marcus Boon

They already have the Southern Bulleid - I guess they could release the SR coaches as an 'addon' to that, like they did with the 2P and the LMS coaches?

the coaches certenly look interesting.

before they closed there facebook page they made mention there next project was a steam project.

Maunsell stock, almost certainly. Fantastic. Where would us steam fans be without DT. Just hope this one doesn't spend too long in gestation.

Should be a nice addition to the S&D route. I think the mainstay of local passenger services for many years were 3 car Maunsell sets, as shown in these photos.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2118341
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2121861

The S&D loco roster needs bolstering in that case as well.

An M7 and T9 would go down prototypically nicely with those on my favourite Southern branch.

prairie4566 wrote:The S&D loco roster needs bolstering in that case as well.

An M7 and T9 would go down prototypically nicely with those on my favourite Southern branch.

Well, I have a T9 book with ( older ) plans, so that's a first step. There's most of a M7 around. I guess you're not actually talking about the S&D anymore though?

Well the S&D can have rebuilt Bulleids on Maunsell stock, actually I believe that's mainly what's missing apart from Standard classes as seen in those shots.

I think the T9 was only rarely seen on the line, and the M7 only at Bournemouth West.

Most engines that were regular performers on the S&D are available for Railworks. As far as I know only the BR standard Class 5 and Class 4 4-6-0's and 2-6-0's are still lacking (if we leave out engines for the Highbridge branch). We have the Bulleid light pacifcs, Standard 9F, Stanier 5MT, Fowler 7F, 4F, 2P and Jinty 0-6-0T, and Ivatt 2-6-2T. For the last years we may add the Stanier 8F, Standard 4MT tanks, and WR pannier tanks and Collett 22xx's.

If the Maunsell coaches are really coming, we would only need Stanier LMS period III coaches for the holiday expresses (and maybe some Bullied coaches for local services) plus the BR standard 5 4-60 to be able to recreate typical S&D workings during the BR era.

Marcus Boon