408496/1957 - NEI-Clark Chapman - Lined Blue, with Arrows - DCC Sound Fitted

408496/1957 - NEI-Clark Chapman - Lined Blue, with Arrows - DCC Sound FittedRuston 408496 was built new for the firm of Shanks & Co. Ltd at Longpark Pottery in Hillhead, Kilmarnock, leaving the works at Boultham on 24 January 1957. The locomotive was sold on, eventually ending up with NEI Clarke Chapman at their Horseley Bridge works and has survived into preservation, currently residing at the Foxfield Railway. Sample Photographs are for illustrative purposes only. Detail variations will differ from model to model

Surveys undertaken with assistance of Erlestoke Manor Fund

At the start of 2008

BR Class 50 - GWR Green - 50007 'Sir Edward Elgar' - Exclusive

Cutaway bufferbeam cowling with oval buffers

Plymouth’s Laira depot also outshopped the former 50049 Defiance in the stunning new Railfreight General livery with re-geared CP7 bogies and new 50149 number

DCC Sound locomotives have speaker mounted in smokebox and dual speakers in tender

Seated coach 15002

21t hoppers (HTV)

Each channel offers up to 16 Bit / 31250 kHz and thus we have finally achieved hi-fi sound quality on your layout

Designed as a heavy freight locomotive rather than a mixed traffic type

the last being withdrawn in 1999

they made a name for themselves hauling the heaviest of trains across the country