R40470 BR 'Tavern' Kitchen and Buttery Car & Composite Restaurant - White Horse 7833 Twin pack G-Scale 521 ‘Watling Street’ at Gateshead

521 ‘Watling Street’ at Gateshead in May 1947 and was withdrawn by BR at Tweedmouth in November 1962

2x Freight trucks

000 in2 (322 dm2)

plus two 7

R40470 BR 'Tavern' Kitchen and Buttery Car & Composite Restaurant - White Horse 7833 Twin pack G-Scale 521 ‘Watling Street’ at GatesheadIn 1949, two pairs of carriages were put into service on BR Southern Region to provide catering facilities with a difference. The idea came from Oliver Bulleid, the former Southern Railways Chief Mechanical Engineer, who had a track record of thinking outside the box with his unusual air smoothed Pacifics, double deck carriages and cabbed Leader locomotives. Each pair consisted of a Composite Dining Car and a Tavern Coach. These were allocated to the