39-272D BR Mk1 NLV (Ex-GUV) General Utility Van BR Blue (Newspapers) W86719 Terrain Destinations: Sheffield-Hull

Destinations: Sheffield-Hull

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

These locomotives are now popular performers throughout much of the UK rail network

the bad press they received

Modernized underbody components

39-272D BR Mk1 NLV (Ex-GUV) General Utility Van BR Blue (Newspapers) W86719 Terrain Destinations: Sheffield-HullThe 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