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Class 37/5 Refurbished 37513 Loadhaul

371-152

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Class 37/5 Refurbished 37513 Loadhaul

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Graham Farish Refurbished Class 37/5 as No. 37513 in the bold Orange and Black colour scheme of Loadhaul.

The Class 37 is a favourite for many, and now N scale modellers and collectors can add a Loadhaul-liveried machine to their collection. The Graham Farish model captures the unmistakable look of the 37, and correctly exhibits the characteristics of a refurbished loco – most notably the flush ends where the headcode boxes have been removed, and the fitting of a high intensity headlight which is operational, of course. The Loadhaul livery and logo is correctly proportioned and other printed details include the loco data panel, overhead warning stickers and even the fuel gauge on the fuel tank has not been forgotten.


MODEL FEATURES:

    Graham Farish N Scale

    Era 9

    Pristine Loadhaul livery

    Running No. 37513

    A
      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.

    DCC - 6 Pin
    Directional Lighting
    Era - 9
    Scale - N

Manufacturer : Graham Farish
SKU : 371-152
EAN : 803393066840
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