Description
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- Bachmann Branchline OO Scale
- Era 5
- Pristine BR Green livery with Small Yellow Warning Panels
- Running No. D6829
- Equipped with a Plux22 DCC Decoder Socket
- Length 245mm
DETAIL VARIATIONS SPECIFIC TO THIS MODEL
- Central Headcode Panels – Glazed displaying Blinds ‘2B79’ and ‘9A76’
- Western Region Lamp Brackets
- Headboard Clips
- Corner Handrails
- Original Buffer Beam Valances
- Round Oleo Buffers
- Original Windscreen
- English Electric Cantrail Grilles
- Etched Frost Grilles (optional part supplied separately)
- Welded Boiler Roof
- Original Open Boiler Port and Safety Valves
- Original Water Filler Door and Access Steps
- Fabricated Bogies
- Original Speedo Drive
- Mileage Counter
- Original Water and Fuel Tanks
- Water Filler Valve
BACHMANN BRANCHLINE CLASS 37 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 and bogie towers
- Diecast metal gearboxes, with gearing arranged for prototypical running speeds and haulage capabilities
- 5mm (OO gauge) wheels to NEM310 & NEM311 standards with authentic profile and detailing
- Detachable coupling pockets to NEM362 standards fitted to each bogie
- 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 and etched fan grilles
- Sprung metal buffers
- Each model supplied with a full set of decorated, model-specific bufferbeam pipework and accessory parts
LIGHTING:
- Directional lighting, including headlights and high intensity headlights where applicable, switchable on/off at either end on DCC or Analogue control
- Cab lighting*, assigned to two DCC functions for separate switching of each
- Separately switched Engine Room lighting*
- ‘Yard Light’ mode*, red tail lights and/or marker lights displayed at both ends (*when used on DCC)
- Authentic light colours and temperatures selected for each model based on era and application
DCC:
- Plux22 DCC decoder interface
CLASS 37 HISTORY
The British Rail 1955 Modernisation Plan paved the way for the large-scale replacement of steam traction with diesel locomotives, and one of the most successful diesel locomotive designs to result from this was the English Electric Type 3. These 1,700hp Types 3 diesel-electric locomotives were built at English Electric’s Vulcan Foundry and by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns between 1960 and 1965, with 309 examples produced in total. When TOPS was implemented the type was designated Class 37.
The class proved popular with railwaymen and so in 1985, a major refurbishment programme for the Class 37 locomotives was sanctioned to extend the working lives of 135 locomotives. Features of the refurbishment involved plating over the four-character head codes and sealing off the nose end communication doors. Dedicated freight locomotives received lower gearing to increase the tractive effort, and some were fitted with extra ballast or even more powerful engines. A new subclass was created for locomotives refurbished with Electric Train Heating (ETH) equipment, allowing their use on passenger trains the whole year-round.
With the sectorisation of British Rail taking hold in the early-1980s, the locomotives returned to traffic following refurbishment in a wide and diverse range of liveries. Passenger machines appeared in BR Blue Large Logo, InterCity and Regional Railways schemes to name just three, whilst freight engines received numerous varieties of Railfreight livery, Transrail, Mainline and Loadhaul. The Class continued to be widely used into the Privatisation-era, with examples operating for the likes of EWS, DRS, West Coast Railways and Colas, whilst others have received ‘retro’ heritage repaints.
MODEL FEATURES:
- Bachmann Branchline OO Scale
- Era 9
- Pristine Colas Rail Freight livery
- Running No. 70811
- Accessory Pack included fully decorated Bufferbeam Pipework
- NEM Coupling Pockets
- Sprung Buffers
- Powerful 5 Pole Motor with Twin Flywheels
- Detailed and Decorated Cab Interior with pre-fitted Driver in one cab
- Directional Lighting
- Interior Cab Lighting
- Lighting can be controlled by chassis-mounted switches or via DCC
- Speaker Fitted
- Length 288mm
