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Accurascale ACC3380-DCC

Class 30 - BR Green - D5503 - DCC Sound Fitted

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Prototype Era
Era 5 (1956 to 1966) British Railways Late Crest

Manufacturer description

D5503 BR green (as delivered)
Our third ‘Toffee Apple’ release represents D5503 as delivered to 30A Stratford depot in January 1958 after it quickly settled into life around East London and on the ex-Great Eastern and Midland & Great Northern Joint lines in East Anglia working almost any services that its home shed could throw at it. The 1,250hp Mirrlees Type 2s were not uprated like their ‘production’ colleagues and along with the English Electric Type 1s and Type 4s were among the most reliable of the pilot scheme locomotives, albeit underpowered. In those early years of dieselisation they could be found working everything from express trains out of Liverpool Street to Clacton, Norwich, Cambridge and King’s Lynn, block freights from Essex onto the Western and Southern Regions, busy holiday services to Great Yarmouth, Hunstanton and Lowestoft and pick-up wagonload services on the region’s extensive pre-Beeching branch line network. In April 1959 it was one of eight members of the small fleet to transfer to 31B March, although it was back at Stratford by the following December. D5503 wears its distinctive original paint scheme with ‘eggshell’ blue window surrounds and bodyside stripes which was only applied to the D5500-D5519. This lasted into the early 1960s before the small fleet started to gain the small yellow panels and were repainted into the same ‘production’ livery as carried by our model of D5501 in the second run. Renumbered 31003 in March 1974 it lasted into the final year of the type and was withdrawn in February 1980 along with 31005. It was quickly moved to Doncaster Works where it was cut up five months later.

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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 Class 30 D5503 is an OO gauge (1:76.2) diesel locomotive model in the original BR green livery. It is supplied with DCC sound electronics, interior lighting and a heavy die‑cast metal chassis, and runs on 16.5 mm track with a minimum curve radius of 438 mm.

The model represents D5503 as delivered to Stratford depot on 01 January 1958. In its early service the locomotive operated a range of passenger and freight duties across East London, East Anglia and the ex‑Great Eastern and Midland & Great Northern Joint lines. It was transferred to March depot on 01 April 1959, returned to Stratford by December 1959, renumbered 31003 in March 1974 and remained in operation until withdrawal on 01 February 1980, after which it was scrapped at Doncaster Works later that year.

Detailed features include separate footsteps, brake cylinders, speed recorder, end‑brake rigging, RP25‑110 profile wheels with brake blocks, etched metal and plastic parts such as grab handles, steps, wipers and roof grille, pre‑painted nameplates, a fully detailed under‑body battery box and air tank, sprung buffers, multiple pipework variations, and correctly positioned kinetic NEM coupler mounts with mini‑tension‑lock couplers.