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Prototype Eras
Era 3 (1923 to 1947) The Big Four (LNER, LMS, GWR and SR)
Era 5 (1956 to 1966) British Railways Late Crest
Manufacturer description
2831 will be sporting a fully lined Great Western green livery. It will have a curved footplate drop at the front of the locomotive, tapered buffers, a small pony truck bell cover and the top front lamp bracket will be mounted on the smoke box. This locomotive has inside steam pipes and a large boiler cradle. It has the Churchward cab with the sand boxes situated underneath it and porthole windows in the cab front. The boiler is crowned with a straight chimney and large safety valve bonnet, this is the only model in this production run not to have top feed. 2831 will be paired with a smooth sided tender.
The GWR prototype 2-8-0 locomotive 2800 (originally No 97) was built in 1903 and underwent two years of trials before further production began which resulted in 84 of the class being built. The design was much in advance of its time and this class and the slightly modified 2884 class were built from 1903 until 1942. They remained the standard freight design on the GWR for the rest of the Company’s existence and were used on the heaviest freight trains.
General Specification
The locomotive will have all of the usual refinements that are expected to be found on all Dapol models including:
- A diecast compensated chassis with floating gearbox
- Diecast footplate
- Diecast boiler
- Detailed cab interior
- The front pony truck is also sprung and operates on a cam so the model will negotiate R2 curves with ease.
- Churchward boiler
- Churchward and Collett boiler support/motion bracket
- Vertical and curved drop footplates
- Churchward (tapered) & Collet (Straight) sprung buffers
- Smoke boxes with inside or outside steam pipes
- GWR & BR smoke box doors (with separately added number plate)
Technical Specification
- A slide in PCB offers simple ‘tool-free’ installation of a NEXT-18 DCC decoder. This board slides through the smoke box door and connects directly to the locomotive mother board.
- The tender to locomotive drawbar includes reliable electrical connections moulded within the close-coupling push-fit coupling. This eliminates wired plugs and unreliable wiper style connections.
- The locomotive and tender have electrical pick-up on driving and tender wheels
- Genuine sound recording provided by 3850 based on the GWSR plaid through a high quality speaker system
- Firebox glow (synchronised with sound*)
- Dapol’s proven slow speed mechanism and high torque motor
- Enhance your driving experience with our feature RealDrive*
* Factory fitted models only
Catalogue listing
Model details
Prototype information
British Railways
* 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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