VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Train-Packs CLASS 10800 Prototype

CLASS 10800 Prototype

with main changes consisting of her coupling with a corridor tender in 1928 (this allowed the locomotive to run non-stop between London and Edinburgh as the crew could be swapped via the tender mid run) before being reverted to the original tender in 1936

the first T3 was built by the LSWR in 1892 and by the end of 1893

carrying retro BR Green livery with small yellow panels but with the modern adornments of overhead warning flashes and orange cantrail lining

The decoder is inserted directly into the socket strips

VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Train-Packs CLASS 10800 PrototypeThe 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