39-425B BR Mk1 POS Post Office Sorting Van BR Blue & Grey (Royal Mail) No. M80303 Class-26 taken out command posts

taken out command posts

200 12 ton Diagram Y8 Fruit vans of Lot 1270 were built in 1937-8 for the Guernsey tomato traffic

and the two long coaches

In 1904 the Goods Conference decreed that new covered vans should be built to certain dimensions

Number of Parts: 4

39-425B BR Mk1 POS Post Office Sorting Van BR Blue & Grey (Royal Mail) No. M80303 Class-26 taken out command postsThe 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