Class 50 - BR Blue Pre-refurbishment - 50035 'Ark Royal' - DCC Sound

Class 50 - BR Blue Pre-refurbishment - 50035 'Ark Royal' - DCC SoundIllustrating the breadth of the Accurascale Class 50 tooling suite is 50035, one of three members of the fleet to gain plated headcode panels during 1977 8 with sealed beam marker lights along with Nos. 50003 and 50007, the latter at the No. 1 end only. In January 1978 the ten year old locomotive become the first of the newly minted Warship class to be honoured with nameplates following the easing of the ridiculous embargo on new namings. The Laira

alongside locos for Freightliner and DRS aboard the MV Stellanova on the 8th November 2006

CIÉ required wagons capable of handling this new type of freight

one of several 'missing link' sub classes that has never been produced in high quality form in 4mm scale

Multiprotocol

IE 22000 Class 'ICR' - 3-car in original 'Intercity' branded livery

While Harry Needle is most closely associated with Class 20s

31106 - Blue Tara Mines Livery

Factory-fitted pipework

PowerPack stay-alive system and dual speaker configuration to reproduce the characteristic sound and function of an Deltic  at work

Steam heat was not a requirement for the engineering trains so this was removed

ROCO Z21® – direct connection supported (locomotives must be managed locally on the device)

It was completed in 1945 and allocated the WD number 75310