Last updated: 6 October 2015
I have lots of information about the coaches needed for the layout but it is scattered all over the place and it is not obvious how to present it so this section is very much ongoing development. I have started with [1] which includes a very good summary of the push-pull coaches used on the Swanage branch. I will embellish that as time permits but additional information or comments would be most welcome.
[1] Swanage : 125 Years of Railways
[2] Maunsell's SR Steam Passenger Stock 1923-1939 [n] original (n) NEE
1922 LSWR four-coach bogie block set no.12B split to form two push-pull sets for Swanage branch [1]
1925 Ironclad 2-sets 381-385 built as through coaches for Waterloo-Lymington and Swanage [1]
(see Ironclad sets 380-5)
mid-1930s PP set no.376, ex block set, on Swanage branch [1]
1930s PP sets 3,4,6,31,35 formed from LSWR stock [1]
1930-47 Maunsell 2-sets "E" built as through coaches for Waterloo-Swanage (see Maunsell sets 179,180,199,200)
June 1937 PP set 1 formed from LSWR stock [1-p246]
PP set 1 on Swanage branch [1-p246]
c1937 Ironclad 2-set 385 Swanage to Waterloo leaves Swanage on branch train [1-244]
June 1939 PP set 36 formed from LSWR stock [1-p246]
June 1943 Strengthening coaches on Lymington and Swanage branches replaced by ex SECR 10-compt 60ft thirds 1093 and 1098 [1]
June 1943 ex SECR 62ft 6in compo 1050 reclassified as all-third 100-setear equipped for push-pull working [1]
Summer 1947 PP set 36 at Swanage [1-p246]
1948/9 Ironclad two car sets 381-384 converted to PP sets [1]
Sept 1950 PP set 662 created from SECR 60ft coaches 3546 and 5503 often worked in Bournemouth area [1]
1951 PP set 31 reconfigured [1]
1952 Ironclad two car set 385 converted to push-pull [1]
6-9-55 PP set 385 at Corfe [1-p248]
June 1957 PP set 36 reconfigured [1]
May 1958 PP set 6 reconfigured [1]
1958 PP set 1 re-formed [1]
1959 PP set 36 withdrawn [1]
March 1959 PP set 31 withdrawn [1]
20-8-59 PP set 382 withdrawn [1]
1960-62 PP sets 600-619 created from 1935 Maunsell corridor stock [1]
July 1960 PP sets 617 created from 1935 Maunsell corridor stock [1-248]
Summer 1960 PP Gate set 373 occasional appeared on Swanage and Old Road services [1]
Summer 1960 PP gate set at Swanage [1-p250]
October 1960 PP set 373 withdrawn [1]
Late 1961 PP set 662 transferred to Tunbridge Wells [1]
Nov 1961 Strengthening coach 1093 withdrawn [1]
1962 Strengthening coach S1050S condemned in squint at Swanage [1-p250]
1962 PP sets 381/3/4/5 withdrawn [1]
Dec 1962 Strengthening coach 1098 withdrawn [1]
7-7-63 PP set 617 at Corfe [1-p248]
Autumn 1964 PP sets 600-619 withdrawn [1]
Nov 1964 PP set 617 withdrawn [1-p248]
13-05-65 Swanage branch train at Wareham Ivatt 2-6-2T 41316 + Bulleid BCK + BR Mk.1 SO [1-244]