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Heljan 3360, OO Gauge, British Railways Class 33/1 Bo-Bo Diesel Locomotive, No 33119 in British Railways Blue livery with white cab surrounds. Model has working bi-directional lights DCC ready, NEM Couplings
Class 33 also known as the BRCW Type 3 or Crompton is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives ordered in 1957 and built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962.
They were produced as a more powerful Type 3 (1,550 bhp) development of the 1,160 bhp Type 2 Class 26. This was achieved quite simply, by removing the steam heating boiler and fitting a larger 8 cylinder 8LDA28 version of the previous 6 cylinder engine. This was possible because of the traffic requirements of the Southern Region: locomotive-hauled passenger traffic depended on seasonal tourist traffic and was heavier in the Summer, when carriage heating was not needed. In the Winter, their expected use was to be for freight. They thus became the most powerful BR Bo-Bo diesel locomotive.The perennially unreliable steam heating boiler could also be avoided.
A total of 98 were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) and were known as “Cromptons” after the Crompton Parkinson electrical equipment installed in them.Like their lower-powered BRCW sisters, the 26 and 27 classes, their bodywork and cab ends were of all steel construction. They were very similar in appearance to class 26/27 locos, but carried Southern Region two-digit headcode blinds between the cab windows.Please study the photos, if you require further information please let me know, we do combine purchases and all orders are packed well.
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