LMR Queen Adelaide carriage; Not to be confused with Her Majesty's Saloon

[What About The Bee]

In a different thread, we investigated Queen Adelaide's personal saloon. That carriage will appear in R40357. But Queen Adelaide's saloon is not what this thread is about.

The LMR had a first class carriage named "Queen Adelaide", which was constructed for the passenger trade. There are two excellent drawings of this carriage. Here is the better detailed of the two, unfortunately in black and white.

Bury/Ackermann has "Queen Adelaide" in yellow, indicating that the carriage is a 1st class.

Once again, three compartments, with 6 seating per compartment. We can see 3 passengers seated in the last compartment. What is unusual about the Queen Adelaide 1st Class carriage is that only the middle compartment is a glass compartment, the other two are open! The leather curtains could be drawn in case of inclement weather. This carriage was used in the hot summer months, per LMR records. There were three other 1st class carriages like this, "[Royal] William", "Croxteth" and "Fair Trader". So these four 1st class carriages are not the standard, but represent a deviation from standard.  

Open First Class!  A summer's breeze to cool roasting passengers.

I think the fare would still be termed "six inside", for 5 shillings, as these are indeed 1st class carriages per LMR records.

If we examine the unusual carriage depicted by Henry Booth in 1830, I note similar curtains. That is, the carriage need not be enclosed to be a 1st class carriage.  

So this represents a potential extra carriage that Hornby could include in a train pack. This would indeed be new tooling, except for the undercarriage so it may be some time coming. 

Fingers crossed, someday!! 

Bee