374-965A BR Mk1 NTX (Ex-POT) Post Office Tender (Stowage) BR Blue & Grey (Royal Mail) No.W80424 Brand_Gaugemaster-Collection invariably marshalled in passenger or

invariably marshalled in passenger or parcel trains

when it entered service with No

Powerful 5 pole motor providing fine power control

1 sand shovel

374-965A BR Mk1 NTX (Ex-POT) Post Office Tender (Stowage) BR Blue & Grey (Royal Mail) No.W80424 Brand_Gaugemaster-Collection invariably marshalled in passenger orThe 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