39-855 BR MK1 RB(R) Restaurant Buffet Refurbished BR InterCity (Executive) No.IC1705 Class-43 Rear marker lights installed

Rear marker lights installed

and featured a 28hp engine with a four-speed manual gearbox

which later became Jaguar

Power came from a Ruston-Paxman unit that was similar to that fitted in the Class 50 locomotives

In this configuration

39-855 BR MK1 RB(R) Restaurant Buffet Refurbished BR InterCity (Executive) No.IC1705 Class-43 Rear marker lights installedThe 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