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Hornby R40463B

BR - Maunsell - S3732 Third Class Brake

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Prototype Era
Era 4 (1948 to 1956) British Railways Early Crest

Manufacturer description

Give your third class passengers somewhere elegant to sit with this Maunsell Brake Third Class Set. This OO gauge coach features a crimson and cream livery, sprung metal buffers and NEM couplings for seamless connection.

History

When the Southern Railway was formed in 1923, it continued to build coach designs inherited from the main three constituent companies. 

Richard Maunsell introduced the SR’s first ‘standard’ coaches, building over 1,200 of them. These were formed into 139 sets, as it was the SR’s practice to keep coaches together for long periods of time, with a set number at each end. 

These coaches are the later 59ft type built from 1934 with flush sides, constructed with steel panels over a wooden framework. They were painted olive green in early SR days and, from 1939, in Bulleid’s malachite green, before most received the standard BR crimson and cream following nationalisation from 1949.

Catalogue listing

Model details

Prototype information

The Hornby BR Maunsell S3732 Third Class Brake is a model train coach from their 2025 Range. It is available in OO gauge and features a painted finish in BR livery with a crimson and cream colour scheme.

The model represents a later 59ft coach type built by the Southern Railway from 1934, with flush sides and a steel panel construction over a wooden framework. It is designed to be part of a set, with a total of 139 sets built.

The real-life coaches were initially painted in olive green during the Southern Railway era, before being re-painted in Bulleid's malachite green in 1939. After nationalisation in 1949, they were repainted in the standard BR crimson and cream livery.

The model features sprung metal buffers, a NEM/Tension Lock coupling, and a minimum radius curve of 2nd radius (438mm). It measures 243mm in length and is designed to operate on standard OO gauge tracks.