The clip-off roof is a brilliant feature, making it easy to fit passengers without unclipping the body. Excellent interior detail and built-in lighting, switched on and off with the “magic wand”, make this a thoroughly impressive coach. See my images that show this.
At £79.99, it compares very favourably with a £110 Bachmann coach with lighting, even allowing for Bachmann’s additional DCC control. Discounts of 10% when buying two or more, or 15% for five or more, make building a rake exceptional value.
Accurascale makes some of the best coaches in the industry, and these are very hard to beat. In my view, they are miles ahead of Hornby’s older-tooling Mk1 and Mk2 coaches. Around £60 for those models, without lighting and with less detail, is difficult to justify. I would leave those until the sales and put my money into these instead.