Graham Farish 371-466A Class 37/0 Split Headcode 37046 BR Engineers Grey & Yellow
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Graham Farish 371-466A Class 37/0 Split Headcode 37046 BR Engineers Grey & Yellow

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Product Code:  371-466A
Brand:  Bachmann
Bar Code:  80339306082

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The Class 37 is a favourite for many, and this Graham Farish model of No. 37046 in BR Engineers Grey & Yellow livery will make a fine addition to any collection. Although depicting an original Class 37/0 machine, as evidenced by the split headcode boxes at each end, this example has received some later additions including the plating of those headcode boxes, the nose end aerials and the high intensity headlights, which are operational, of course.

 

MODEL FEATURES

  • Graham Farish N Scale
  • Era 8
  • Pristine BR Engineers Grey & Yellow livery
  • Running No. 37046
  • Accessory Pack
  • NEM Coupling Pockets
  • Powerful 3 Pole Motor
  • Directional Lighting
  • Equipped with a 6 Pin DCC Decoder Socket – Recommend Decoder item No. 36-568A
  • Length 125mm
     

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.

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.

Scale  N
Railway Company  BR
Locomotive Type  Diesel Locomotive

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