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Prototype Era
Era 5 (1957 to 1966) British Railways Late Crest
Manufacturer description
Expected Delivery TBC 2025 (Subject to change at Manufacturer's Discretion).
3850 will be sporting a Great Western Green livery. It will have a curved footplate drop at the front of the locomotive, parallel buffers, a large pony truck bell cover and the top front lamp bracket will be mounted on the smoke box door. This locomotive has inside steam pipes and a large boiler cradle. It has the Churchward cab with porthole windows in the cab front and the sand boxes situated forward of the cab. The boiler is crowned with a straight chimney and large safety valve bonnet. 3850 will be paired with a riveted 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
Many original GA drawings were used in the development of these accurate and authentic models.
Building on the many developments from the Dapol Mogul and Manor Class models including Dapol's award winning slide in PCB in the boiler for tool free DCC fitting and sugar cube speaker enclosure (for sound models) and conductive drawbar providing tender wheel pick-up and connections for high bass speaker.
The locomotive will have all of the usual refinements that are expected to be found on all Dapol models including:
- A diecast compensated chassis
- Detailed cab interior with screw reverse
- The front pony truck is also sprung and operates on a cam so the model will negotiate R2 curves with ease
- Churchward top feed boiler
- Original and later Boiler support/motion bracket
- Churchward vertical drop & 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 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)
- 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 played 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
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