412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted

412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound FittedRuston 412427 was built new for Bowaters Packaging Ltd, for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent, leaving Boultham on 25 March 1957. The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945, with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia, and the manufacturing output had doubled by 1957. The pulpwood was unloaded from the ships berthed at the deep water jetty on the Thames and from there, the

Water Filler : No

Ex D1479 patterns

Rumoured to be the first of a series of Class 50s renamed after famous people

3 (10" x 5") & S4 single (10" x 5")

A relatively early withdrawal came in 1957 from Newport Pill Shed

Full passenger interior lighting in all vehicles

Tooling covers three different body designs

3-car Set 22050 comprising:

but retaining the original narrow cab and coal bunker

OO Gauge / 1:76

It was initially outshopped from HNRC's workshops at Barrow Hill in BR blue

including: