Technical pages for those involved in the restoration of vintage railway carriages.

The following web pages are available on this web site:

• Roofing materials and techniques: Canvas, Synthetic and Aluminium.
• Contacts for Suppliers
• Interior of the guard's compartment of Stove-fitted Van C (BY) No.404

The following web pages are available on other web sites:

• The Railway Heritage Register (home to the Carriage Survey and the Wagon Survey) has details of all preserved carriages and wagons.
• The LMS Carriage Association hosts the
  Carriage Exchange - "For Sale" and "Wanted" page for Spare Parts for Carriages.
  They also provide information on
  • How to make Luggage Rack Netting by Alan Taylor - also available to download as a pdf;
  • LMS Vacuum Brake system (pdf);
  • Wolverton Train Lighting: download the LMS and their own versions;
  • Lining and transfer fixing techniques, also available as pdfs: Lining and Varnish-fix transfers;
  • Beading techniques, also available as a pdf;
  • LMS (1929) document on painting of rolling stock (pdf).
• The LNER Coach Association: Technical pages:
  • Instructions for the fixing of Teak panels on Gresley coaches.
  • Exterior varnishing specification.
  • Gresley glazing specification.
  • DRAFT Roof specification.
  • Frame repair specification
  • Other LNER carriage resources (Drawings, Moquette, etc)
• The Railway Coach E-mail Group is an E-mail List for people interested in Railway coaches of all kinds and ages. Members of this list have for the last few years organised annual Carriage Restorers' Conventions.
  This web site is host to further useful resources for carriage restorers.
• The Railcar website has some technical pages on DMUs, and an article by John Joyce on DMU Batteries. Also a useful list of suppliers of spare parts. Much of the information is equally applicable to hauled coaching stock.
• The Queen of Scots train pages include details of Technical and Safety Matters relating to main-line running of coaches.
• Piers Connor's page on Vacuum Brake Systems.

  Rolling Stock and spares For Sale pages:

• Peak Rail's "Carriage Exchange" page for Spare Parts for Carriages.
• The Traction and Rolling Stock Advertiser - including coaches and parts for sale.
• Cotswold Rail - vehicle sales
• Rail for Sale - full size down to models and miniature.
• C.A.R. Services (UK) - Rolling stock sales - also Carriage technical drawings and maintenance manuals

The following web pages may also be of interest:

• Heritage Drawings by Bluebell member Fred Bailey (who has already prepared over 200 engineering drawings for the Bluebell Railway Atlantic Group).
• Railway Carriage Significance - a paper by Richard Gibbon, former Head of Engineering Collections at the NRM.
• Piers Connor's Railway Technical pages cover modern coaching matters, especially in relation to electrical and braking systems, in considerable detail, and also include many useful links.
• The Railway Terminology Group are compiling a Glossary of Railway Terminology which covers many aspects including carriages.
• On-line documentation from the Health & Safety Executive about Asbestos.

• The BR Mk.I Coach e-mail list
• The GCR Rolling Stock Trust, owners of many of the surviving Great Central Railway carriages.
• Stately Trains is a fine collection of Victorian carriages that have been restored by Stephen Middleton.
• The Great Western (SVR) Association preserves and restores items of rolling stock, particularly carriages, from the Great Western Railway, and is based at Bewdley on the Severn Valley Railway.
• The Vintage Railway Carriage WebRing.

Please note that neither the Bluebell Railway nor the Heritage Railway Association are responsible for any of the advice or other information on these pages.

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