VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Brand_Ixion the InterCity East Coast franchise

the InterCity East Coast franchise was re-nationalised

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

purchasing Arran Transport in 1994 and A1 Service in 1995

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with BR inheriting a fleet of 200 locomotives that would go on to serve them for well over a decade before the first examples were finally withdrawn in 1962

VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Brand_Ixion the InterCity East Coast franchiseThe 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