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<h3>SRA 81- Class Locomotive</h3><p>Meticulous research, meticulous design and precise livery application. Our model is an extremely accurate representation of the SRA 81 class diesel electric locomotive, scale fidelity at its finest.</p><p>Our models are factory fitted with an 21 pin board with either a DC plug or a ESU DCC sound decoder featuring locally recorded and developed Profound Sound.</p><p>We have designed 4 distinct body types, these represent design changes covering all periods of service and colour schemes. The models feature a common design DCC motherboard allowing for lighting control of headlights, illuminated number boxes, white and red marker lights and ditch lights.</p><h3>Model Features:</h3><ul> <li>Highly detailed Ready-to-Run HO scale model</li> <li>Precisely tooled plastic body (ABS)</li> <li>Diecast metal chassis with dual sound enclosure</li> <li>4 car body styles tooled representing all livery applications</li> <li>Genuine Kadee scale head whisker coupler</li> <li>Blackened semi scale metal wheels</li> <li>Separately applied metal detail parts</li> <li>Stainless steel handrails and plastic brake piping</li> <li>Brass Horns</li> <li>Highly detailed bogie frames and separately applied brake parts.</li> <li>5-Pole skew wound electric motor and dual flywheels</li> <li>All wheel drive and electrical pickup</li> <li>LED headlights, marker lights, number boxes and ditch lights</li> <li>Separately applied air hoses</li> <li>Detailed cab interior</li> <li>Factory painted and decorated, 13 liveries available</li> <li>Custom numbering option</li> <li>Standard with 21 pin mother board</li> <li>18” Minimum radius recommended</li> </ul>

<h3>HO Scale Victorian Railways DERM Railcar Kits</h3> <p>Injection moulded polystyrene kits</p> <h3>Features</h3> <ul> <li> <p>Available in a range of Victorian Railways prototypes, in HO scale only.</p> </li> <li> <p>Kits are injection moulded from polystyrene, composite white metal/etched brass, or etched brass/lost wax brass castings and include instructions, decals, motors and wheels/bogies as appropriate.</p> </li> <li> <p>Kits do NOT include paints, or couplers, which are available separately.</p> </li> <li> <p>Wheels are to NMRA RP25 profile and HO gauge.</p> </li> </ul>

<p>The LNER Gresley A4 is one of the most iconic express locomotives in Great Britain, with its streamlined casing a classic symbol of the attitude towards speed and design in the 1930s, which saw increased competition to the railways from road and air travel. The LNER Board knew that they had to make travel between the major cities faster, comfortable and more reliable.</p> <p>Nigel Gresley, the LNER's Chief Mechanical Officer, travelled on the Fliegende Hamburger diesel locomotive in Germany and was impressed by its streamlining, although he realized it was only efficient at high speeds. Gresley was certain that a modified A3 Pacific, with streamlining, could haul greater loads than other locomotives at the same speed or faster and a series of trials were conducted to confirm the A3's suitability.</p> <p>With the trials successfully completed, the LNER Board gave Gresley the go-ahead to create the "Silver Jubilee" streamlined trains, the first of the new streamlined A4s.The streamlining of the A4s' steam circuit, higher boiler pressure and extension of the firebox to create a combustion chamber made them more efficient than the A3 as they consumed less coal and water- especially later on when they were also fitted with a Kylchap double chimney. This improved their free steaming capabilities further.</p> <p>Their streamlined design not only made them capable of high speeds, but created an up draught of smoke, obscuring the driver's vision, a major problem on the new Class A4 engines. The story goes that during wind tunnel testing, after several unsuccessful efforts to get the smoke to lift clear, a thumbprint was inadvertently left on the clay model just behind the chimney. This succeeded in clearing the smoke and was incorporated into the final design.</p> <p>Sir Nigel Gresley was a unique example of the LNER A4 class of locomotive, the only locomotive of the class named after a person on introduction. The locomotive is of course named after the designer of the class and the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LNER, Sir Nigel Gresley. The locomotive first turned its wheels on the 30th October 1937 as locomotive number 4498.</p> <p>The locomotive would be withdrawn from BR service as 60007 on the 1st February 1966. Sir Nigel Gresley was saved by the A4 Preservation Society, and has spent much of its preservation career in service hauling tours and visiting preserved railways. In 2022, the locomotive finished an overhaul, and will run on the mainline for much of the next decade.</p> <p>Hornby Dublo A4 models feature a diecast body, just as their original Hornby Dublo counter parts would have been seen. This is coupled with enchanted decoration which when paired with the diecast of the boiler provides a realistic finish to the body. The models contain a 5 pole motor with flywheel and are DCC ready with an 8 pin socket.</p> <h3>Specification</h3> <ul> <li>Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 29.1</li> <li>Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 5</li> <li>Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.5</li> <li>Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.6</li> <li>Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge</li> <li>License: Yes</li> <li>License line: Produced under licence for SCMG Enterprises Ltd. © SCMGE. Every purchase supports the museum.</li> <li>Finish: Painted</li> <li>Colour: Blue</li> <li>Gauge: OO</li> <li>DCC Status: DCC Ready 8 pin socket</li> <li>Operator: LNER</li> <li>Designer: Sir Nigel Gresley</li> <li>Wheel Configuration: 4-6-2</li> <li>Livery: BR Blue</li> <li>Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2</li> <li>Motor: 5 Pole Skew wound</li> <li>Number of Parts: 1</li> <li>Class: A4 Class</li> <li>Buffer Type: Sprung Metal Buffers</li> <li>Coupling Type: NEM Tension Lock</li> <li>Hornby Decoder Compatibility Primary: HM7000-8TXS: Bluetooth® &amp; DCC Sound Decoder (8-pin)</li> </ul>

<p>Entering service as the English Electric Type 3, the British Rail Class 37 diesel locomotives were built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows in a Co-Co configuration, based on locomotive designs for export markets. Built to undertake both freight and passenger work across all BR sectors, these engines proved highly reliable and, after overhaul, many survived in service across the network into the 1990s.</p> <p>British Rail first placed an order for forty-two Class 37 locomotives in January 1959, the first of which was delivered in November 1960, entering service on 2 December with the last of this original batch complete by mid-1962, by which time subsequent orders had been placed. The last of the 309 locomotives built was delivered to the Western Region on 9 November 1965, originally numbered in the range D6700-D6999 and D6600-D6608.</p> <p>Many Class 37 Locomotives were refurbished in the 1980s, extending their life. As a result, the Class 37 remains in service to this day as one of the longest serving classes on British railways. Second-hand locomotives have been exported to railways in France and Spain whilst in the UK many locomotives no longer required to work have been preserved.Network Rail possesses 5 Class 37 locomotives. One of these, No. 37217, is in storage whilst the other four have undergone extensive refurbishment. The refurbished locomotives have been reclassified Class 97/3, with the Class 97 designation reserved for departmental locomotives under the TOPS system. These four were used by Network rail as part of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) trial project on the Cambrian Line. The class was chosen because of its original fitment with both air and vacuum braking, a feature which will allow them to pull both modern freight trains as well as steam specials.</p> <h3>Specifications</h3> <ul> <li>Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 25.5</li> <li>Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 5</li> <li>Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.5</li> <li>Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.23</li> <li>Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge</li> <li>License: No</li> <li>Finish: Painted</li> <li>Colour: Yellow</li> <li>Gauge: OO</li> <li>DCC Status: DCC Ready 8 pin socket</li> <li>Operator: Network Rail</li> <li>Designer: English Electric</li> <li>Livery: Network Rail</li> <li>Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2</li> <li>Motor: 5 Pole Skew wound</li> <li>Number of Parts: 1</li> <li>Class: Class 37</li> </ul>

<p>The Victorian Railways received their second series of T class locomotives from late 1959, these were mechanically similar to the first series but featured a new raised height operating cab layout. This new style of raised cab design featured throughout the remainder of the T class series.</p> <p>SDS Models are pleased to offer the inclusion of the T-2 series within our range of Victorian Railways T class models.</p> <p>Based upon the tried and proven Austrains T class mechanism we have comprehensively retooled almost every item, bringing the model inline with our exacting scale and design standards. Some 220 new or re-made parts are involved in the production of the four series we are offering below. All the models now feature prototypically correct width long hoods, series specific and appropriate fuel tank and battery box combinations, improved appearance bogie side frames and brake shoe / wheel tread alignment and a host of other design detail enhancements.</p> <h3>Features</h3> <ul> <li>Highly detailed Ready-to-Run HO gauge model</li> <li>Precisely tooled plastic body (ABS)</li> <li>Genuine Kadee scale head whisker coupler</li> <li>Separately applied handrails and detail parts</li> <li>5-Pole skew wound electric motor and dual flywheels</li> <li>All wheel drive and electrical pickup</li> <li>LED head and marker lights</li> <li>All models come standard with an MTC 21 pin motherboard</li> <li>Exclusive and locally recorded EMD sounds by DCCSound</li> </ul>

<p>73964 'Jeanette' entered service on 8 May 1966 as E6031, being one of the second batch Type JB locomotives. Renumbered to 73124 from 1 January 1974 under TOPS, on 1 June 1987 the locomotive received the name 'London Chamber of Commerce' retaining this until 1 January 1996, although by this time the locomotive had been reclassified as Class 73/2 and numbered 73205.</p> <p>Sold to GBRf from Gatwick Express, the locomotive was renamed on 12 October 2014 as 'Jeanette', hauling the 1Z84 'Electric Bluebirds on Tour' naming charter along with three other Class 73s.</p> <h4>Includes</h4> <ul> <li>1x Locomotive </li> </ul> <h4>Technical Specifications</h4> <ul> <li>Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 36</li> <li>Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 6</li> <li>Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 10</li> <li>Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.43</li> <li>Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge</li> <li>License: No</li> <li>Finish: Painted</li> <li>Colour: Blue</li> <li>Gauge: OO</li> <li>DCC Status: DCC Ready 8 pin socket</li> <li>Operator: GBRf</li> <li>Designer: EE/BREL</li> <li>Livery: Colin Prior Scottish Landscape</li> <li>Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2</li> <li>Number of Parts: 1</li> <li>Motor: 5 pole skew wound</li> <li>Class: Class 73</li> </ul> ​

<p>The Victorian Railways received their second series of T class locomotives from late 1959, these were mechanically similar to the first series but featured a new raised height operating cab layout. This new style of raised cab design featured throughout the remainder of the T class series.</p> <p>SDS Models are pleased to offer the inclusion of the T-2 series within our range of Victorian Railways T class models.</p> <p>Based upon the tried and proven Austrains T class mechanism we have comprehensively retooled almost every item, bringing the model inline with our exacting scale and design standards. Some 220 new or re-made parts are involved in the production of the four series we are offering below. All the models now feature prototypically correct width long hoods, series specific and appropriate fuel tank and battery box combinations, improved appearance bogie side frames and brake shoe / wheel tread alignment and a host of other design detail enhancements.</p> <h3>Features</h3> <ul> <li>Highly detailed Ready-to-Run HO gauge model</li> <li>Precisely tooled plastic body (ABS)</li> <li>Genuine Kadee scale head whisker coupler</li> <li>Separately applied handrails and detail parts</li> <li>5-Pole skew wound electric motor and dual flywheels</li> <li>All wheel drive and electrical pickup</li> <li>LED head and marker lights</li> <li>All models come standard with an MTC 21 pin motherboard</li> <li>Exclusive and locally recorded EMD sounds by DCCSound</li> </ul>