Red Stroudley Coaches are small four-wheeled coaches used on local passenger trains.
Technical Details
Basis
The red coaches are based on LBSC Stroudley Coaches built to a design by Stroudley between the early 1870s and late 80s. Several coaches of this type are preserved on the Bluebell Railway and the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
In the television series, duckets on the brake coaches are beaded. This makes them similar to the Stroudley coaches that received modification work from 1911 onwards, as they were originally flush and fashioned from three sections of iron sheet.
The coaches differ from their basis with their oil lamp pots, as they have a round base instead of the square base ones that were used on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR).
The orange coaches share the same basis, however, they have different roofs and guard's compartments.
A variety of different class types have appeared in the television series. Each of these can be identified by the number of windows and interiors.
Class types in the model series:
Class types in the CGI series:
Livery
The coaches are painted dark red. They originally had white rooftops, but these were repainted dark grey following the eighth series.
A dilapidated dark brown version of a brake coach appears in a siding at Knapford in Hero of the Rails and the thirteenth series. Red, yellow, blue and cream coaches also make brief appearances in Thomas and Percy Learn About Mixing Colours.
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White, yellow, orange, dark green, dark blue, purple and black composite coaches with dark grey rooftops appeared in a CGI series-based Lift, Load and Haul game featured on the Official Website.
Appearances
Trivia
Dexter in the CGI Series.
- Dexter is the only known example of one of these coaches to have had a face.
- In The Adventure Begins, these coaches replaced the use of the express coaches in adaptations of the first series episodes Thomas' Train and The Sad Story of Henry.
- In James and the Trouble with Trees, they were used as part of a "special express".
- In Thomas Saves the Day, they are referred to as "ordinary coaches" by Sir Topham Hatt.
- They are one of the few coaches to be seen coupled with a brake van and apart of mixed-traffic trains in the Television Series.
- In a Ravensburger puzzle, Duncan is erroneously illustrated pulling narrow gauge versions of these coaches.
Merchandise
- Wooden Railway (discontinued)
- Motor Road and Rail (discontinued)
- TrackMaster (discontinued)
- Bachmann (HO and G scale)
- Lionel Trains (discontinued)
- Push Along (discontinued)
- Kabaya (discontinued)
See Also
| Locomotives | Steam | City of Truro | Flying Scotsman | Spencer | Stephen's Competitors | Connor | Caitlin | Samson | Logan | Theo | Lexi | Hurricane | Merlin | Duchess | Flying Thistle | Thirteen |
|---|---|---|
| Diesel | Class 40 | The Mainland Diesels | Frankie | |
| Rolling Stock | Connor's Coaches | Caitlin's Coaches | Bradford | |
| Non-Rail Vehicles | 040 BMC | Beresford | Tony | Mitchell | The Hawker Hurricane | |
| People | Elizabeth II | The Duke and Duchess of Boxford | The Thin Clergyman | The Fat Clergyman | Baz and Bernie | |
| Stations | Barrow-in-Furness | Brighton | Crewe | Victoria | |