374-562B GWR Hawksworth Composite Corridor BR Maroon W7818W option-set-154 Length 4 x 238mm

Length 4 x 238mm

The last Isle of Wight example

Twin Vacuum Brakes Cylinders

grouping the minor gauges in front of the driver

000 X23s built between 1912 and 1914

374-562B GWR Hawksworth Composite Corridor BR Maroon W7818W option-set-154 Length 4 x 238mmFrederick W. Hawksworth was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR), succeeding Charles Collett in 1941, and his coach designs were the final evolution of passenger stock built by the GWR, being designed at the end of World War Two and entering traffic from 1947 onwards. With the Nationalisation of Britains railways in 1948, construction continued under BR and the final examples were outshopped during the 1950s. Intended