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Prototype Era
Era 7 (1972 to 1982) British Rail Blue (TOPS)
Manufacturer description
55 002 ‘Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry’ in two tone green 1980 with full yellow ends as repainted for its final thirteen months in traffic before withdrawal on 31st December 1981. The repaint into its colours was paid for with the aid of a grant from the Friends of the National Railway Museum (Era 7).
Features include (subject to variation):
- Differing headcode panel arrangements
- Windscreen wiper arrangements
- Multiple steam heat boiler port modifications
- Introduction of ETS with correct placing of connections
- Filling in of cabside windows
- Sandbox Hatches variations
- Cab air vents
- Different placing of horns
- Cast and fabricated bogies
- Fully functional high intensity and wipac lights as seen in mainline runs in the privatisation era
The technical specification of the locomotive will be industry leading, with:
- Separately applied metal detail parts, including grab handles, steps, wipers and more
- Correct height mini-tension-lock couplers with correct height NEM socket as well as a fully detailed buffer beam
- High Performance traction, to include;
- Five-Pole motor with two flywheels
- Metal Helical Gear box for maximum performance and slow speed running
- Gearing arranged so locomotive can achieve a scale top speed of 100 mph
- DCC ready with 21pin interface
- Fully detailed Lighting Pack, including:
- Directional lighting, DC and DCC
- Marker lights can be turned off when train is coupled to loco
- Separately switched cab lighting and illuminated, detailed driver’s console, auto off on movement
- RP25-110 wheels OO wheels with provision for re-gauging to p4 and EM gauge
- Fully sprung metal buffers
- Extra fine factory-fitted pipework
- Minimum Radius 438mm (2nd Radius Set-track)
Catalogue listing
Model details
Prototype information
* 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.
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