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The Mail Train
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As the freightliner train rolls away, Brush type 2 number 5552 heads across the flyover on its
way north with a postal train made up of mainly full brakes for stowage, two POS sorting vans
and a BSK for carrying personnel.
This fairly straightforward modification has been carried out on the Hornsey fleet, removing
the fictional roof handrail & pipe on the Bachmann models. On the left is a BG, a BSK in the
middle, and a completed BG on the right.
In practice the two sorting vans would probably be the same way around for ease of loading
through the wider doors at platforms, but are placed this way around for asthetic reasons.
The maroon BG is a recent acquisition and adds some colour to the consist.
BSK number E35445 having had the water filler converted to a handrail, and some fresh
blue paint over the areas of recent modification. A BSK was regularly included in the
mail train formations, so that staff had somewhere to take a break.
An all-over blue BG hitches a lift on the back end.
Kadee number 5 buckeye couplings are used between the coaches, mounted on
the end of the body to happily negotiate 30" radius curves. Black folded paper is glued to one
coach whilst the adjacent coach has a blank buffing plate, and this arrangement closes the gap
between the carriages and provides a reasonable representation of a working gangway.
