R40470 BR 'Tavern' Kitchen and Buttery Car & Composite Restaurant - White Horse 7833 Twin pack option-set-013 obscuring the driver's vision

obscuring the driver's vision

1:148 Scale model of a Class 33 diesel locomotive decorated in EWS Red/Gold livery

The company went from strength to strength

One worker is operating a jackhammer while another welds

R40470 BR 'Tavern' Kitchen and Buttery Car & Composite Restaurant - White Horse 7833 Twin pack option-set-013 obscuring the driver's visionIn 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