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Accurascale ACC3287-SND

BR Class 92 - DB Cargo - 92029 - DCC Sound

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Prototype Era
Era 9 (1995 to 2004) Initial Privatisation

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92029 DB Cargo (with Martin House headboard) EXCLUSIVE
Named for Dante Alighieri, the famed Italian writer of the Divine Comedy, which tells the fictional story of the author’s journey through hell, the palindromic No. 92029 Dante was released from Brush at Loughborough in March 1995 for testing but would not be officially allocated to Crewe IEMD until six months later. Like most of its EWS-owned colleagues it was rarely used to its full capabilities and its first decade of action was regularly interrupted by periods of store. In October 2008, by which time it had gained the large EWS sticker, it was sidelined for longer than usual and it didn’t return to an active pool until July 2013, several years after the DB Schenker takeover. In 2013-4 it was also seconded to Direct Rail Services for several stints on the operator’s key intermodal services, while April 2015 saw it stored for its second long time out. In 2016 it had a brush with export as DB lined it up for a transfer to Eastern Europe, although this was subsequently cancelled. Three years later, re-activation work commenced but due to other priorities at its home depot this was not completed until June 2023, and was was the first DB ‘92’ to receive similar interference isolation equipment as fitted to the GBRf examples to allow it to return to the WCML under its own power. Following the completion of several test runs it ran to Toton for a repaint, being released in standard DB Cargo ‘Traffic red’. Shortly after on August 27, and still in immaculate condition, it worked the Carlisle-Warrington leg of the Branch Line Society’s ‘Garsdale Growler’ railtour, the second day of a two-day event raising funds for the Martin House Children’s Hospice, complete with headboard. It eventually moved to Dollands Moor in the October to take up freight duties on the high speed route to London, although it is still regularly seen south of Crewe on light engine moves, and has even made the odd foray to Carlisle and back to iron out any ‘bugs’.

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^* Class names often change over the lifespan of a locomotive, so this is not necessarily the class name used by the operator in the period modelled.

Accurascale BR Class 92 model 92029 is supplied as a DCC‑sound ready kit, part number ACC3287‑SND. The locomotive is represented in the DB cargo livery and includes a working motorised pantograph. It is intended to depict the initial privatisation era of the British railway network and is modelled to the specifications of a Class 92 locomotive.

The unit bears the name “Dante”, after the Italian author Dante Alighieri, and carries the palindromic number 92029. The prototype was built by Brush at Loughborough and released for testing in March 1995, before being officially allocated to Crewe IEMD six months later.

During its service life the locomotive was frequently stored and saw limited use. It was sidelined in October 2008, returned to traffic in July 2013 after the DB Schenker takeover, and was seconded to Direct Rail Services for intermodal duties in 2013‑14. After another storage period in April 2015, a proposed export to Eastern Europe in 2016 was cancelled. Reactivation work began three years later and was completed in June 2023, when it became the first DB‑owned Class 92 fitted with interference‑isolation equipment similar to that on GBRf examples, allowing it to operate on the West Coast Main Line under its own power.

Following test runs the locomotive was repainted at Toton in the standard DB Cargo “Traffic red” scheme and, on 27/08/2023, hauled the Carlisle‑Warrington leg of the Branch Line Society’s “Garsdale Growler” railtour, supporting the Martin House Children’s Hospice and featuring a special headboard. In October 2023 the unit moved to Dollands Moor to undertake freight duties on the high‑speed route to London, while continuing to be seen on light‑engine movements south of Crewe and occasional trips to Carlisle for driver training and reliability testing.