Fox Hand-Finished Fine-Etched Headboards, Nameplates, Numberplates, Worksplates and Ancillary Plates in Brass and Stainless Steel Diesel & Electric Locomotives Range List Revised JUNE 2021 The Growing Range From the manufacturers of Fox Transfers Who we are and What you get how to contact us: The plates detailed in this catalogue are Fox Transfers Etched Products made from fine grade brass and/or are created in England stainless steel, and the designs are etched and marketed worldwide by to shape and size. Brass plates are treated 3 Fox Transfers Ltd against tarnishing. Where applicable, the Unit 5 Priory Business Park transfers which adorn the plates are hand- Wistow Road, Kibworth printed and hand applied. Each colour is Leicestershire separately applied by hand in both LE8 0RX transfer and paint formats. England Future Products Telephone +44 (0)116 319 4950 The Fox range of etched plates has been in preparation since the early 1990s. Those E-mail [email protected] items which are not listed here are likely to Website www.fox-transfers.co.uk be produced in the future if deemed VISITS TO OUR WORKS MAY BE MADE viable. Please telephone for individual ONLY BY PRIOR APPOINTMENT availability. Despatch Times VAT Registration No. 189 2495 55 Fox etched plates are produced in small Whilst every reasonable effort is made to quantities and finished by hand, as ensure that any product changes are fully mentioned above. Owing to the huge publicised, Fox Transfers Ltd reserve the range of different plates and the colour right to make any such alterations variants and formats in which many are without prior notification, especially but available, it is impossible, impracticable not exclusively where such changes may and uneconomic to maintain large ready- be beyond our control. to-go stocks of any given item. Some plates take up to an hour to finish, spread over four or five days. Please bear this in mind before ordering. Prices FOR THESE REASONS, THERE MAY BE A The price codes provided in this catalogue DELAY IN THE PREPARATION AND DESPATCH (after each item) should be read with the OF YOUR SELECTED PLATES. WE SHALL TRY product price code list provided with this TO ADVISE YOU OF ANY LIKELY DELAY publication and are effective immediately. WHERE APPLICABLE AND THE ANTICIPATED They supersede all previous prices. Fox DESPATCH DATE. Descriptive Price Lists are published normally every six months, sometimes Exhibitions more frequently if the volume of new Since February 2007 we have been unable The Fox Guarantee releases warrants this. Please check with to take our stand to exhibitions. This has If you should ever have cause to complain us that you are using the current been caused by ill-health, economics, the about our products or service - please Descriptive Price List. Our ‘price year’ is dramatically increased size of our range make your complaint to either of the from 1 August until 31 July. and the necessity of maintaining our partners. Nobody likes to receive service to all our customers, worldwide. complaints, but we’d sooner you made Orders paid by cheque or Postal Order and them to us, and got some action, than to not carrying the correct amount will be other folk. The address and telephone returned. details are shown above and elsewhere in this publication. Safety Fox Etched Products comprise elements Errors and omissions with extremely sharp edges and corners. excepted They are not toys and are unsuitable for We have spent a great deal of time and use by children. care compiling this list. The information comes from a huge range of sources and Ancillary Plates we cannot guarantee that all of the detail The word ‘crest’ or ‘plaque’ or ‘motif’ is correct. If you are aware of any glaring where shown in the listings after a errors or of any significant omissions to Check first- locomotive’s name indicates the inclusion details of existing plates, please do let us happy later of one or more pairs of ancillary plates know. appropriate to the specific format. These For authentic reproduction of life-size plates may comprise some form of heraldic liveries in model form, it is essential that device, or logo, motif or other graphic careful reference is made to photographic symbol or typographic addendum. evidence of the loco you are trying to re- create. Whilst detailed instructions are Packaging Numbers usually provided to motive power depot Some plate sets may be supplied with a painting staff, it is not unusual for different running or TOPS numberset on variations to be outshopped which, to say the mounting card from that which was the least, do not conform to said ordered. This will only occur when the instructions. plates are identical to those ordered and Fox Transfers are unable to provide details indicates that the plates concerned were other than those contained in general fitted to more than one locomotive at one specifications for each livery. Much period or another. All our Modern Image evidence will be gained from trawling the plates are filed under the TOPS (Total internet and the thousands of publications Operations Processing System) sequences - which have appeared over the years. And with very few exceptions - and experience remember: all vehicles have two sides! shows that this is the best method. British Railways Standard (Plain) FEPHB032 THE LAKES EXPRESS black 013 Design Train Headboards FEPHB033 THE LAKES EXPRESS red 013 British Railways Euston-Windermere/Workington Titled Train Headboards Western Region FEPHB034 THE LANCASTRIAN black 013 FEPHB001 THE BRISTOLIAN black 013 FEPHB035 THE LANCASTRIAN red 013 These headboards, with their raised FEPHB002 THE BRISTOLIAN red 013 Euston-Manchester (London Rd) 4 beading and lettering in Gill Sans typeface Paddington-Bristol (Temple Meads) Piccadilly from 12/9/60 to match the then current BR house style, FEPHB003 CAMBRIAN COAST EXPRESS black 013 FEPHB036 THE MANCUNIAN black 013 were introduced by British Railways in the Paddington-Aberystwyth/Pwllheli FEPHB037 THE MANCUNIAN red 013 early 1950s. The size of the lettering varied FEPHB004 CAPITALS UNITED EXPRESS black 013 Euston-Manchester (London Rd) according to the length of the title, often Piccadilly from 12/9/60 Paddington-Cardiff/Swansea (High St) FEPHB038 THE MANXMAN black 013 with the word ‘THE’ in larger lettering. FEPHB005 CHELTENHAM SPA EXPRESS black 013 FEPHB039 THE MANXMAN red 013 There was a number of standard board Paddington-Cheltenham Spa Euston-Liverpool (Lime St) sizes and shapes common to most regions, (St James) FEPHB166 THE MASTER CUTLER black 013 although the Southern was unique in its FEPHB006 THE CORNISHMAN black 013 FEPHB167 THE MASTER CUTLER red 013 use of large rectangular boards with FEPHB007 THE CORNISHMAN red 013 St Pancras-Sheffield (Midland) radiused corners. According to our Wolverhampton (Low Level)- FEPHB040 THE MERSEYSIDE EXPRESS black 013 information, some titles were displayed Penzance FEPHB041 THE MERSEYSIDE EXPRESS red 013 concurrently on boards of different design. Sheffield (Midland)- Penzance from 10/9/62 Euston-Liverpool (Lime St)/ Southport (Chapel St) The background colour of all boards was Bradford (Forster Square)-Penzance FEPHB042 THE MID-DAY SCOT black 013 originally black, although the Southern from 14/6/65 Bradford (Exchange)-Penzance FEPHB043 THE MID-DAY SCOT red 013 changed to green almost immediately from 1/5/67 FEPHB044 THE MID-DAY SCOT light blue 013 after their introduction. By the mid-1950s, FEPHB008 CORNISH RIVIERA black 013 Euston-Glasgow (Central) local variations began to appear on other Paddington-Penzance FEPHB045 THE MIDLANDER black 013 regions, with London Midland and some FEPHB009 THE DEVONIAN black 013 FEPHB046 THE MIDLANDER red 013 Western boards in red. The Eastern’s FEPHB010 THE DEVONIAN red 013 Euston-Wolverhampton (High Level) preference was for black, although Kings Bradford (Foster Square)-Paignton FEPHB047 THE NORTHERN IRISHMAN black 013 Cross Top Shed opted for dark (similar to Bradford (Exchange)-Paignton FEPHB048 THE NORTHERN IRISHMAN red 013 Oxford) blue. The Scottish Region’s from 1/5/67 FEPHB049 THE NORTHERN IRISHMAN preference was for light blue. With many Leeds City-Paignton from 3/5/71 light blue 013 boards still sporting black grounds right FEPHB011 THE INTER-CITY black 013 FEPHB050 THE NORTHERN IRISHMAN green 013 Yes, pre-dating HSTs by quite a up to the end of the steam era, the logic Euston-Stranraer Harbour few years! (Sleeping car train) behind the application of colours is Paddington-Wolverhampton FEPHB081 NORTH WALES COAST EXPRESS difficult to ascertain. Long-distance inter- (Low Level) black 013 regional expresses would change locos FEPHB012 THE MAYFLOWER black 013 This board is in Southern-Region-sty/e once and sometimes twice during the Paddington-Plymouth (North Rd) rectangular format and was used on course of their journey. Usually, FEPHB013 THE MERCHANT VENTURER black 013 preserved steam workings in headboards were not ‘swapped’: the Paddington-Bristol/ Summer 1989. replacement loco would back onto the Weston-super-Mare FEPHB051 THE PALATINE black 013 train with its own headboard, supplied by FEPHB014 PEMBROKE COAST EXPRESS FEPHB052 THE PALATINE red 013 black 013 St Pancras-Manchester (Central) the local shed and therefore finished in its Paddington-Pembroke Dock FEPHB079 PINES EXPRESS black 013 preferred colour, or simply a suitable and FEPHB015 THE RED DRAGON black 013 FEPHB079B PINES EXPRESS (shaped) black 013 available board, already in place. FEPHB016 THE RED DRAGON red 013 FEPHB080 PINES EXPRESS red 013 The Western Region introduced its own, Paddington-Swansea/Carmarthen FEPHB080B PINES EXPRESS (shaped) red 013 more ornate, headboards with cream FEPHB017 THE SOUTH WALES PULLMAN This train worked the black 013 Somerset & Dorset Joint Line. backgrounds in the mid 1950s, (the Fox Paddington-Swansea (High St) Manchester (London Road)- listing of these is shown after the section FEPHB018 TORBAY EXPRESS black 013 Bournemouth (West) until 8/9/62 on ‘plain’ headboards).