Coaching Stock (SR Branch/Local workings)

Sets seen on the Bodmin North branch trains.

For many years Maunsell coach sets were the mainstay of this working and it would seem that they were rotated. I have not found any answers to how but I am assuming that these sets were rotated with workings from Exeter and could be seen at other locations in the West Country.

Need to settle on one set for the branch workings to Bodmin North.

Set 20
I do not know formation of this set.
Seen in:
June 1960 leaving Wadebridge for Bodmin North behind 57xx 4666 (pg.18 Branch Lines Around Bodmin - V. Mitchell - Middleton Press).

Set 23
Dia 2113 - six compartment brake third - no. 2792 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8871)
Dia 2403 - six compartment brake composite -n0. 6575 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8872)
Seen in:
September 1961 on the 3.8pm Wadebridge to Bodmin North train behind 57xx 4694. (pg. 10 Steam on West Country Branch Lines - Peter Gray - Ian Allan)

Set 24
Dia 2113 - six compartment brake third - no. 2832 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8871)
Dia 2403 - six compartment brake composite -n0. 6602 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8872)
Seen in:
In the early 1960's at Bodmin North station being pulled by a 57xx 4694 (postcard print)
September 1961 behind O2 30199 arriving at Bodmin North. (pg. 33 The Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway - C.F.D. Whtmath - Forge Books)
July 1960 heading to Bodmin North behine 57xx 4666. (pg. 32 The Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway - C.F.D. Whtmath - Forge Books)

Set 25
Dia 2113 - six compartment brake third - no. 3780 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8871)
Dia 2403 - six compartment brake composite -n0. 6665 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8872)
Seen in:
August 1955 at Boscarne Junction returning from Bodmin North behind O2 30203 (pg. 37 Branch Lines Around Bodmin - V. Mitchell - Middleton Press).

Set 28
Dia 2113 - six compartment brake third - no. 2787 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8871)
Dia 2403 - six compartment brake composite -n0. 6569 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8872)
Seen in:
In June 1959 at on the 4.23pm Bodmin North behind an O2 30236. (pg.64 Branch Lines Around Bodmin - V. Mitchell - Middleton Press).


Set 30
I do not know formation of this set.
Seen in:
May 1962 behind an Ivatt 2-6-2T 2MT 41284 on a Bodmin North to Padstow train. (pg. 23 & 29 Branch Lines Around Bodmin - V. Mitchell - Middleton Press).

Set 198
Dia 2113 - six compartment brake third - no. 2780 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8871)
Dia 2403 - six compartment brake composite -n0. 6699 - (Ian Kirk Ref 8872)
Seen in:
April 1960 at Wadebridge on the 5:00pm Padstow to Bodmin North behind 57xx 4694 - coach S6699S identified in photograph - pg. 76 Bodmin and Wadebridge 1934 - 1978 T.Fairclough


As these seem to be the mainstay of short haul branch/local trains in the area another set will be required for locals to Mawgan Porth.