GR551 Ffestiniog Railway 'Bug Box' 4 Wheel Coach 1st Class Early Preservation Livery Era_Era-4 Under the earlier BR classification

Under the earlier BR classification system

or the more lightly soiled examples were converted quite commonly into ale vans for the transport of beer

The new ESU PowerPack Mini can be wired to all fourth and fifth generation ESU decoders

As a result they were given the BR power classification 4P/5F

Minutely researched and applied liveries on all models

GR551 Ffestiniog Railway 'Bug Box' 4 Wheel Coach 1st Class Early Preservation Livery Era_Era-4 Under the earlier BR classificationThe curiously named Bug Boxes 4 wheel coaches were the first passenger carrying coaches built for the Ffestiniog Railway. Dating from 1864 to 1867 they were built by Brown, Marshall & Company. The term Bug Box is a more recent term given to them, possibly in the 1950s, and originally they were referred to as Small Birmingham's. Ten were built, including two replicas, and 7 survive, still doing what they were originally designed to do, moving