VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Brand_Ixion SIGNAL DETAILS 2 Aspect Dual

SIGNAL DETAILS 2 Aspect Dual Head Home Signal

Railway Modelling

the 08s were allocated across the BR regions

Passenger coach

with BR inheriting a fleet of 200 locomotives that would go on to serve them for well over a decade before the first examples were finally withdrawn in 1962

VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Brand_Ixion SIGNAL DETAILS 2 Aspect DualThe XR3i modelled was supplied by Evans Halshaw, Chester, Cheshire in May 1986 and spent its early life in that area. By 2004 it was sitting, unused, on a driveway in Chester, because the owner had passed away. Enthusiast Derrick Oare worked in a building adjacent to where it was parked and approached the owners widow to buy it as his son, David, was then restoring an RS1600i. When, almost two years later, she was ready to part with the car, she