page_title: Coaches of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
section_title: Period III (1933 onwards)
hierarchical_section_title: Coaches of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway / Coaches built by the LMS / Period III (1933 onwards)
caption_attribution_description: First Class interior (seen through the window glass!) of LMS Stanier 65' "QL" (BR "RFO") First Class Vestibule Diner No.7511 built at Wolverton 1934, Diagram 1902, Lot 734. At Bridgnorth, Severn Valley Railway, 03/12.
context_page_description: The London, Midland and Scottish Railway inherited several styles of coaching stock from its constituents. Stock built by the LMS itself can be categorised into three separate periods, numbered I to III.
context_section_description: In 1932, William Stanier took up his appointment as Chief Mechanical Engineer to the LMS and the first of the completely flush sided LMS coaches emerged soon enough after his assumption of office to lead to the coaches ever afterwards being referred to as "Stanier" stock.
  The LMS flush sided coach, of which many examples still remained as late as 1967-8, differed in appearance from its predecessors mainly in the shape of its windows which now exhibited well-rounded corners. All the earlier coaches had, of course, been built with slightly rounded window corner mouldings but by comparison with Stanier vehicles, the Period I and II coach window was almost square cornered. The second major visible difference was also in the window area. During Period I, the favoured method of admitting fresh air was the droplight which was frequently supplemented by and finally (in Period II) in large measure superseded by the Stones and Dewel pattern glass vane ventilator.
  With the Stanier stock was introduced the now familiar sliding ventilator incorporated in the upper part of the window. Initially this was quite shallow with only one section moveable but in 1934 this was replaced by a deeper ventilator with two wide sliding sections which remained almost until the end. From about 1947-8, the sliding portions were somewhat shortened and in this form were retained as a feature of the British Railways (BR) standard coach.
  During the Stanier period, non-corridor coaches varied little from the pattern laid down in the 1920s except for the flush clad exterior. The design was still high waisted and the seating arrangements never changed from the earlier years. No inter district lavatory sets were built during the Stanier regime and apart from a few lavatory composites for the London Tilbury and Southend section, all the Stanier non-corridor stock was of the suburban type. There was an interesting batch of articulated triplets made in 1938 but these do not seem to have been very popular.
caption: First Class interior (seen through the window glass!) of LMS Stanier 65' "QL" (BR "RFO") First Class Vestibule Diner No.7511
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