Although the LMS ‘Black Five’ was a huge success
as the slam-door trains were coming to the end of their useful lives and did not meet modern health and safety requirements
This FFA wagon is designed to be used with our FGA two-wagon packs and is fitted with a bespoke coupling pocket
allowing the wagon to couple to the FGAs or other FFA inner wagons using the bar coupling supplied with each model
VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black hornby-00 Although the LMS ‘Black Five’The 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