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Accurascale ACC3212

Genesis 4w - Great Eastern Railway (Jazz) Crimson Lake - Twin Pack B

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Prototype Era
Era 2 (1875 to 1923) Pre-grouping

Manufacturer description

On February 6, 1919, the Great Eastern Railway’s Locomotive Superintendent, Albert Hill, presented his report on replacing varnish as a finish on coaches with painting, his preferred colour being Crimson Lake. With Board approval, this began to be implemented by April 1919. Body sides and ends, along with solebars and headstocks, were painted in Crimson Lake. All running gear below the level of the solebar was black, while the centres of the Mansell wheels were painted either Crimson Lake or black. Roofs were painted white or off-white, along with all roof furniture, though the section of roof between the lower rain strip and the eaves was painted mid-grey.

Body mouldings were picked out in cream or primrose lining, and a new serifed lettering style was adopted, along with smaller class numerals on door panels where possible. As suburban stock, these carriages did not carry the GER armorial device. First- and second-class carriages were instead denoted by the addition of broad colour bands beneath the eaves—chrome yellow for first class and French blue for second.

All trains for the GER’s new suburban timetable of that period, the “Jazz” services, were made up to 16 vehicles, and vehicles from the Enfield Sets have been chosen for representation in this release. To enable the running of short trains, the 16-car rake would be split between the 10th and 11th vehicles, creating 10-car and 6-car portions. The sets were lettered at each end, with “EE” for the 10-car portion and “E” for the 6-car portion, with an additional letter (A, B, C, etc.) denoting the individual set.

Initially, Enfield Sets were split as 12-car and 4-car portions, but this was soon abandoned in favour of the 10/6-car split. The running order was: 3rd Brake, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 1st, 3rd, 3rd Brake. The portions were divided between the second-class coaches for the 12/4 split and between the second and first for the 10/6 split. Packs A and C build the early 4-car portion, with Pack B adding the two vehicles necessary for the later 6-car portion.

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Prototype information

Accurascale Genesis 4w – Great Eastern Railway (Jazz) Crimson Lake – Twin Pack B is a model kit of a pre‑grouping GER suburban carriage painted in the Crimson Lake livery introduced in early 1919. The kit is a Genesis‑type coach, carries the manufacturer part number ACC3212 and represents the “Jazz” suburban timetable stock that operated after Albert Hill’s report on replacing varnish with paint was approved on 6 February 1919.

The Crimson Lake scheme applied red paint to the body sides, ends, solebars and headstocks, with black running gear below the solebar and roofs in white or off‑white (the band between the lower rain strip and eaves being mid‑grey). Cream or primrose lining highlighted the mouldings and a new serifed lettering style was used. First‑class and second‑class coaches are identified by broad colour bands beneath the eaves – chrome yellow for first class and French blue for second – and the GER armorial device is omitted.

Pack B provides the two additional coaches required to extend the original four‑car Enfield set to the later six‑car portion of the 10/6 split used on the Jazz services. The full sixteen‑car rake was divided into a ten‑car and a six‑car segment, with the ten‑car set marked “EE” and the six‑car set marked “E”, each lettered at both ends and further distinguished by a suffix (A, B, C, etc.). The running order of the original formation included a mix of third‑class, second‑class, first‑class and brake vehicles.