VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Brand_Ixion the Class 450 Desiros began

the Class 450 Desiros began serving most intended routes

Passenger coach

height 146mm

Railway Modelling

The FB Mk VI variant was powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin 21 or 23 liquid-cooled V12 engines

VA14307B Ford Escort Mk4 XR3i, Black Brand_Ixion the Class 450 Desiros beganThe XR3i modelled was supplied by Evans Halshaw, Chester, Cheshire in May 1986 and spent its early life in that area. By 2004 it was sitting, unused, on a driveway in Chester, because the owner had passed away. Enthusiast Derrick Oare worked in a building adjacent to where it was parked and approached the owners widow to buy it as his son, David, was then restoring an RS1600i. When, almost two years later, she was ready to part with the car, she