Flaxfield- A bucolic 1950s Suffolk backwater

[Osgood]

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Now, they're not prototypical ( as in I'm as yet unaware of any that were used on East Anglian branchlines ) , they will be beautifully detailed, they ARE going to be really expensive.......but I only want two !

However, I do think they'll give an impression of the type of coaching stock relegated to eke out their last days on a rural backwater in the 1950s.

So, off with the M&GN branding and on with the E 's in front of the numbers and frankly, they'll do for me.


Rob.

From Ronald H Clark, A short History of the M&GNJR:

The 50ft LNWR coaches present in 1935 comprised:

11 x corridor composites, built 1898/1901, scrapped 1947 - 1953​

5 x brake corridor composites, built 1901, scrapped 1945 - 1952​

35 x corridor thirds, built 1899/1902, scrapped 1948 - 1953​

13 x brake(?) corridor thirds, built 1900/1903, scrapped1944 - 1953​

Note: the 13 x brake corr. 3rds are listed only as corridor 3rds and listed immediately below the 35 x corr. 3rds - I wonder if these should have been listed as brake corr. 3rds as there would surely be a requirement for more than just 5 x brake coaches in this fleet, although there were also 5 x 30ft ( 6 wheel?) luggage brake vans.

Anyway, it is quite reasonable to expect that a few of the drier / less damp coaches would have been moved on locally to a bucolic Suffolk backwater to fulfil a coaching stock need instead of being scrapped

Where the heck is Flaxfield anyway?