Further additions to the Accurascale Exclusives range consist of a pair of BR Mk 2c coaches in Departmental condition. Former First Open DB977390 was converted to a brake force runner for the BR Civil Engineers’ Mobile Track Assessment fleet in 1987, given the TOPS code of QXA and gaining a red waist-level stripe to the blue/grey livery.
Even more striking was former Brake Second Open DB977787, acquired by the Civil Engineering department at Preston for use on the northern section of the West Coast Main Line and repainted into the popular ‘Dutch’ grey/ yellow scheme.