The main through platforms on Coketown were designed for about 8 Mk3 coaches and a loco or 7 coaches and a pair of HSTs. At the time I was building the platforms we had various Farish and Dapol locos and the basic Farish Mk3 coaches. Dapol had produced the Super Voyager and the HST. At the time there must have been some hope that eventually someone would produce a Pendolino but Ben and Mike's Kickstarter was still 6 years away.
The core of the platforms was solid balsa. This was so t
