TT3097TXSM BR - Large Logo Blue - Class 47 - 47485 (DCC Sound Fitted)

The newest entrant to the TT:120 diesel locomotive fleet is the highly requested British Railways Brush Type 4, otherwise known as the Class 47.

Painstakingly researched and designed over a number of years, this all-new range of Type 4’s will be one of our most comprehensive tooling suites yet, allowing for various subclasses and detail permutations to be produced: from ‘as-built’ BR Green examples in the 1960’s right through to those still running on the network today. This marvellous new range of Type 4s will be available in either DCC Ready or Sound Fitted format.

TT3097TXSM is DCC Sound Fitted and depicts Class 47 47485 in BR Large Logo Blue.

Model Specification:

• Highly detailed model based on extensive research and design
• Numerous tooling options available
• Diecast chassis
• Numerous separately fitted parts, including front end and cab handrails, etched roof fan grilles, cab steps, buffers, and underframe pipe details
• Detailed cab interior
• Powerful 5 pole motor providing power to all wheels
• Electrical pick-ups on all wheels
• Pivoting NEM coupling sockets
• Accessory pack that includes optional bufferbeam pipes
• Minimum 2nd radius curves

Electronics:

• Illuminating headcode, marker lights and cab lights
• Next18 DCC sound decoder fitted compatible with HM7000 system
• Space for R7426 Power Bank Mini for uninterrupted running

Sound:

• Utilises high-fidelity HM7000 sound file
• Chassis PCB mounted speaker

Tooling:

• Plated headcodes
• High intensity lights
• Full length cab roof vents
• Nose mounted ETH
• Loughborough one-piece bufferbeam bracket
• Bufferbeam cowling
• Round buffers
• Plated cab step
• Stones speedometer
• Removed water tanks
• Serck radiator grilles
• Plated Spanner boiler

Livery:

• BR Large Logo blue
• Authentic livery colours and font types
• Semi-gloss finish
• Era 8

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History

This locomotive was completed by Brush Traction at Loughborough in October 1963 and went new to Old Oak Common depot in West London as D1683, though less than a year later it was at Oxley Depot and spent the remainder of its career based in the West Midlands. 

It was repainted from two-tone green to BR corporate blue in May 1971 and had its train heating boiler replaced with electric heating in 1973. It received its new TOPS number, 47485 in December 1973 and continued in service on both passenger and freight duties until withdrawal in October 1993. 

It wasn’t scrapped until four years later, at Crewe Works.