376-227 LNER Thompson Composite Corridor BR Maroon E1236E Brand_Thomas-the-Tank-Range The Walthers Cornerstone Three-Stall Roundhouse

The Walthers Cornerstone Three-Stall Roundhouse kit is as essential to railroading as track and locomotives

the Mole is a manned 30 ton tunnelling machine

straddle two railway companies

Original cab or later ‘life extended’ style with cutaway bufferbeam cowling

Brick and stone construction

376-227 LNER Thompson Composite Corridor BR Maroon E1236E Brand_Thomas-the-Tank-Range The Walthers Cornerstone Three-Stall RoundhouseEntering traffic just after World War Two, the Thompson coaches were the last mainline corridor coaches to be built by the LNER, and indeed examples continued to be outshopped after Nationalisation in 1948. Utilising steel panelling, a departure from the teak panelling traditionally seen on coaches built by the LNER and its predecessors, the Thompson coaches were sleek and modern in appearance. Whilst much of the fleet would remain in service until