VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Brand_Ixion Railway Modelling

Railway Modelling

the Class 450 Desiros began serving most intended routes

Passenger coach

Cattle wagons were made in large numbers by all four of the pre-nationalisation rail companies and were a very common sight on rail systems until their use was eclipsed by road freight vehicles

the InterCity East Coast franchise was re-nationalised

VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Brand_Ixion Railway ModellingThe 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