Hornby TT:120 Class 37 37413 Loch Eil Transrail

Hornby’s Class 37 is the must-have locomotive type and an ideal to expand or start your collection in TT:120 scale. Accurately portraying Britain's most popular diesel class in a wide range of colourful liveries, this model of 37413 is perfect for the early privatisation era

FEATURES

• Highly detailed model based on extensive research and design, including historical drawings and laser scans
• Die-cast chassis and underframe giving the mode a weight of 170g
• Assortment of separately fitted parts, including lamp brackets, speedometer, sandpipes, and roof horns
• Etched metal roof grille
• Detailed cab interior
• Powerful five-pole motor with dual flywheels providing power to all wheels
• Electrical pick-ups on all wheels
• Brass axle bearings
• Pivoting NEM coupling sockets
• Accessory pack that includes body removal tool, optional snowplough and bufferbeam pipes
• Minimum 2nd radius curves

Electronics:

• Working directional and cab lights, including Day/Night mode (please note some functionality will only work on DCC)
• Next18 DCC Decoder socket compatible with HM7000 system
• Decoder socket housed underneath clip-on body
• Space for HM7000-N18TXS Sound Decoder to be fitted
• Space for HM7070 Power Bank for uninterrupted running

Tooling:

• Class 37/4
• Plated headcodes
• High intensity lights
• Nose-mounted ETH
• Oval buffers
• Plated roof boiler plate

Built at English Electric’s Vulcan Works in 1965, this locomotive entered traffic as D6976. It was renumbered to 37276 under BR’s TOPS system in 1974. In October 1985, the locomotive was fitted with Electric Train Heating (ETH), renumbered to 37413 and was named Loch Eil Outward Bound in 1987.

In 1994 37413 joined the Transrail fleet - one of three shadow priviatisation freight operators - and was withdrawn in 2000 following a short career with EWS.

Internally the locomotive features a Next18 DCC decoder socket and space for a 15mm x 11mm cube speaker. Hornby’s TT:120 Class 37 is highly detailed and is the perfect companion to the modern image freight rolling stock including the HAA coal hoppers, forthcoming Seacow ballast hoppers, MHA wagons and more.

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