British outline coach suggestions?

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Robert Howard

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Hi

Would appreciate suggestions for british outline boogie coaches I can purchase? Including kits or non-british which can be easily altered.

For now these will be for my Bachmann James but will use with live steam in the long run so looking at 16mm as well as G (not too worried about scale as long as they look OK).

More important for me that they run reliably on (less than perfectly flat) LGB R2 - and ideally R1.

The leading contender at the moment is the Swift16 coaches but would appreciate any other recommendations, options and suppliers I might of missed etc...

Thanks in advance for your help!

Rob
 
Robert H said:
Hi

Would appreciate suggestions for british outline boogie coaches I can purchase? Including kits or non-british which can be easily altered.

For now these will be for my Bachmann James but will use with live steam in the long run so looking at 16mm as well as G (not too worried about scale as long as they look OK).

More important for me that they run reliably on (less than perfectly flat) LGB R2 - and ideally R1.

The leading contender at the moment is the Swift16 coaches but would appreciate any other recommendations, options and suppliers I might of missed etc...

Thanks in advance for your help!

Rob
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I have several Swift Sixteen wagons including bogie ones.
Although I like them I find that they are not v forgiving of even slightly uneven track and they positively hate being run back through R3 points.
It could be a problem with the chopper couplings which have little lateral 'give' and/or the fact that the couplings are body mounted.
 
funandtrains said:
The Accucraft IOM coaches are very good value.
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BUT! Won't run R1s. Just bought a rake and they will do 4' no problem even 3' but tricky on anything much tighter.
 
bobg said:
BUT! Won't run R1s. Just bought a rake and they will do 4' no problem even 3' but tricky on anything much tighter.
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My 4 wheelers, although not bogie coaches don't have problems with the tighter bends and are still nice looking models, I don't know how they would look behind a "James" however :-\ as I am not sure what scale "James" is meant to be however he is supposed to be a standard gauge loco whilst most live steam is 16mm narrow guage.
 
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