39-803 BR MK1 BSO Brake Second Open BR Blue & Grey No.M9208 Long-Track Prototypes designed especially for servicing

Prototypes designed especially for servicing diesels

Twin speakers installed in the tender of all models for optimum sound reproduction

The first deck landing trials commenced in the winter of 1946

Set includes: 2 large straight river sections

depicts Refurbished Class 31/4 No

39-803 BR MK1 BSO Brake Second Open BR Blue & Grey No.M9208 Long-Track Prototypes designed especially for servicingThe British Railways Mk1 was the designation given to BRs first standard design of main line coaching stock, and one of its most successful. Built from 1951 until the early 1960s to augment and replace the array of Big Four and earlier pre grouping designs inherited from the LMS, LNER, GWR and SR, BR took the best features from several of these types to produce the new steel bodied design. As a result, the Mk1 was stronger and safer than any of the