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Prototype Era
Era 7 (1972 to 1982) British Rail Blue (TOPS)
Class 41 HSDT ADB975812 BR Grey & Blue (Full Yellow Ends) Sound Fitted.
BACHMANN BRANCHLINE OO SCALE CLASS 41 HSDT SPECIFICATION
MECHANISM:
• Five pole, twin shaft motor with two flywheels providing drive to both bogies.
• All axle drive.
• Electrical pickup from all wheels.
• Separate metal bearings fitted to each axle.
• Diecast metal chassis block.
• Diecast metal gearboxes, with gearing arranged for prototypical running speeds and haulage capabilities.
• 16.5mm (OO gauge) wheels to NEM310 & NEM311 standards with authentic profile and disc brake detailing.
• Tension Lock coupling mounted via a coupling pocket to NEM362 standards fitted to a body-mounted, close-coupling mechanism at the inner end.
• Designed to operate on curves of second radius (438mm) or greater.
DETAILING:
• Bogies constructed from multiple components featuring full relief detail.
• Separately applied metal detail parts, including grab handles, windscreen wipers, lamp bracket and ETH cables.
• Separately fitted underframe equipment, pipework and conduits.
• Sprung metal buffers.
• Each model supplied with a full set of decorated bufferbeam pipework and accessory parts.
LIGHTING:
• Directional lighting, including headlights, marker lights and tail lights, all of which are switchable on/off at either end on DCC or Analogue control*.
• Cab lighting, switchable on DCC or Analogue control*.
• Guard’s Compartment lighting, switchable on DCC or Analogue control*.
• Authentic light colours and temperatures selected for each light application.
*Switching of lights on Analogue control is by means of the chassis mounted switches.
DCC:
• Plux22 DCC decoder interface.
SOUND:
• Dual Fitted with two quality speakers employed for optimum sound reproduction.
LIVERY APPLICATION:
• Authentic liveries applied to all models.
• Multiple paint applications employed on each model using BR and corporate specification colours.
• Logos, numerals and text added as appropriate using multi-stage tampo printing using authentic typefaces, logos and colours.
* 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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