R40470 BR 'Tavern' Kitchen and Buttery Car & Composite Restaurant - White Horse 7833 Twin pack option-set-013 Modular design - easily expanded

Modular design - easily expanded to a full circle

Bought in 2012

obscuring the driver's vision

and before now they were complicated and finicky to replicate at model railroad scale level

R40470 BR 'Tavern' Kitchen and Buttery Car & Composite Restaurant - White Horse 7833 Twin pack option-set-013 Modular design - easily expandedIn 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