38-144C BR VDA Van BR Railfreight Red & Grey No.200819 - Weathered wagon The TV series was popular

The TV series was popular and is estimated to have been watched by over 27 million viewers in 1995

with the empty coal space modelled below

allowing them to work over non-electrified routes and into sidings and yards where there isn’t a third rail power source

and some vans could also be adorned with marketing posters for the products that may be contained within – in the case of this example ICI Fertilizer branding is applied

Some twenty years since the V2 was first produced in N scale by Graham Farish

38-144C BR VDA Van BR Railfreight Red & Grey No.200819 - Weathered wagon The TV series was popularThe VDA van was a development of British Rails Cov AB air braked van which was first introduced in the late 1960s, with the VDAs entering traffic from 1975. Sharing the same 20ft 9in wheelbase as the original Cov ABs, the VDAs not only had sliding doors to allow the sides to be fully opened for loading unloading but these doors could also be opened individually as cupboard doors to allow quicker access to just one internal area. The vans entered