This Class 390 Coach Pack in its striking Climate Change livery includes First Class trailer car J and Standard trailer car U.

Introduced in July 2002 for high-speed electric passenger services, 53 eight/nine-car Class 390 units were initially built for use on the WCML on lease from Angel Trains. These were transferred from Virgin Trains to Avanti West Coast in December 2019. Another four of the tilting sets were added between 2010 and 2012. From 2012, 31 of the original units were increased to 11-coach sets, including set No. 390121, which in 2021, was decorated in a special ‘Ride Against Climate Change’ livery to mark Cop26 – the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.

Pair these useful Coach Packs with the R30444 Avanti Class 309 4-Car Train Packand, with different combinations, you can create a train of any number of cars from six through to eleven.

In 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 Railway’s 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 ‘Atlantic Coast Express’ and provided thirsty commuters with a pub-on-wheels for their homeward journey. Internally, each ‘tavern’ was decorated to mimic an olde English pub, with tiled floor, whitewashed walls, ‘oak’ beams and high-backed settles, all illuminated by ‘lanterns’. Externally, the paintwork was divided horizontally, in carmine and cream, but the lower section lined out to represent brickwork. The upper section had ‘half-timber’ relief and a painted pub sign, while the small windows had old-style leaded panes.

The dining cars were unpopular and were quickly re-fitted in 1950, at which point the mock brickwork on the ‘taverns’ was repainted in plain carmine. They lasted in service in their pairs until late 1959 but were repainted in unlined BR(SR) green in 1957. Similar pairs of ‘Tavern Cars’ operated on other BR regions.

In 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 Railway’s 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 ‘Atlantic Coast Express’ and provided thirsty commuters with a pub-on-wheels for their homeward journey. Internally, each ‘tavern’ was decorated to mimic an olde English pub, with tiled floor, whitewashed walls, ‘oak’ beams and high-backed settles, all illuminated by ‘lanterns’. Externally, the paintwork was divided horizontally, in carmine and cream, but the lower section was lined out to represent brickwork. The upper section had ‘half-timber’ relief and a painted pub sign, while the small windows had old-style leaded panes.

The dining cars were unpopular and were quickly re-fitted in 1950, at which point the mock brickwork on the ‘taverns’ was repainted in plain carmine. They lasted in service in their pairs until late 1959 but were repainted in unlined BR(SR) green in 1957. Similar pairs of ‘Tavern Cars’ operated on other BR regions.

This Class 390 Coach Pack in its striking Climate Change livery includes Standard trailer cars B and D, and a Standard (including Shop) motor car with pantograph C.

Introduced in July 2002 for high-speed electric passenger services, 53 eight/nine-car Class 390 units were initially built for use on the WCML on lease from Angel Trains. These were transferred from Virgin Trains to Avanti West Coast in December 2019. Another four of the tilting sets were added between 2010 and 2012. From 2012, 31 of the original units were increased to 11-coach sets, including set No. 390121, which in 2021, was decorated in a special ‘Ride Against Climate Change’ livery to mark Cop26 – the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.

Pair these useful Coach Packs with the R30444 Avanti Class 309 4-Car Train Pack and, with different combinations, you can create a train of any number of cars from six through to eleven.

The four car coach pack complements the R30460 Train Pack and completes the LNER nine-car Class 801/2 set No. 801207 ‘Rail 200’, including TS (Trailer Standard), MC (Motor Composite), MS (Motor Standard) and TSRB (Trailer Second Restaurant Buffet) cars.