Blue Spot Fish Van White E879014

Until relatively recently with the advent of fast refrigerated road transport, rail was popular for the efficient and fast transportation of fish. It was this ability of rail to deliver fresh fish over great distances that enabled Grimsby to become the worlds largest fishing port. Post nationalisation, British Rail adopted a LNER design of fish van, where the fish was pre-packed in ice and transported in a specially insulated wagon, as its standard design of fish van. Several hundred of these fish vans were built by the Faverdale Wagon Works, near Darlington between 1954 and 1961 and, when in use, were generally painted all white with a blue spot. These vans were often seen in rakes of between 10 and 20 vans and were often pulled by the fast express locos of the time. This time round we are offering a selection of alternate liveries as well as the usual ones.