News from your model shop - 3rd April 2022

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Parkside Models are a sub-brand of Peco and produce a wide variety of OO gauge wagon and coach kits. Some of their wagons and all of their coach kits may be familiar to long-established modellers as they were formally manufactured under the Ratio brand name, also a sub-brand of Peco.

Parkside's coach kits concentrate predominantly on 19th-century classic panelled coaches built by the GWR, Midland and LNWR railways. All of the kits require assembly and painting and do not come with any decals, however, moulded details are well applied and there are a number of separately fitted parts that combine to result in a very credible model. Also in the kits' favour is the choice of variations each coach type has to offer, making them an excellent choice for modellers wishing to break from ready to run models.

A long-established firm favourite of many modellers with smaller layouts is the GWR 4-wheeled coach. Built between 1890 and 1902, these coaches operated on more rural parts of the network and are ideal for branch line dioramas. Parkside produces three variations of this coach including an all 3rd, a composite and a brake composite.



The much larger 48 ft LMS (ex Midland) non-corridor suburban coaches were built between 1903 and 1910 and remained in service until the early 1950s. They were used as close-coupled sets for the Birmingham and Manchester areas and Parkside produces four varieties of the coach, an all 3rd, an all 1st, a brake 3rd (6 compartment) and a brake 3rd (4 compartment).

There are few coaches that possess as much character as Clerestory coaches. Built between 1898 and 1902 by the Midland Railway, these non-corridor coaches were used frequently on express services and survived long enough to eventually see the crimson livery. Parkside produces an all 3rd, a composite and a brake 3rd giving modellers the ability to create convincing rakes.

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