Hornby EWS Business Coach Pack arrives in the UK

Featuring NEM Tension-Lock couplings and sprung metal buffers, factory-fitted details include cab, footplate and interior details, with a wide scope for modellers to add further detailing.

Inside the pack features four Mk. 2F coaches in EWS lined maroon – FO, 2 x TSO & BSO and the pack is priced at £169.99. 

About the prototype

The idea of the managers train, business train, or inspection saloon is far from a new one, the first examples being employed by some of the earliest of the pre-grouping railway companies. In the modern era, EWS' management train is a version of this rather old-fashioned idea. For much of the modern era, EWS has operated a push-pull managers train and a 'business train'. 

This business train, despite its name, rarely operated as a single train with sets of coaches often being employed on extra services around the country, an example being on services laid on during major UK-based sporting events and such. 

The business train utilised the then rather old Mk2 coaches in a special EWS maroon livery and would be found being hauled by all manner of EWS liveried traction.

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