TT3073M BR - Railfreight - Class 31 - 31237

Hornby are delighted to present the newest addition to the TT:120 diesel locomotive family: the Brush Type 2 Class 30 and 31. This brand-new, highly detailed tooling covers the extensive history of the ‘Gargoyles’: from skinhead examples from the late 50s, to modern Class 31s retrofitted with high intensity lights and NRN roof pods. This exciting new range of Type 2s will be available in either DCC Ready or Sound Fitted format.

TT3073M depicts Class 31237 in BR Railfreight Grey with solebar red stripe.

Model Specification:

• Highly detailed model based on extensive research and design
• Die-cast chassis
• Wealth of separately fitted parts, including front end handrails, disc headcodes (where applicable) and roof grille
• Detailed cab interior
• Powerful five-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:

• Next18 DCC Decoder socket compatible with HM7000 system
• Decoder socket housed underneath clip-fit body for easy access
• Space for HM7070 Power Bank for uninterrupted running

Tooling:

• Plated headcode roof
• Later cab style
• English Electric exhaust
• Plated side steps
• Plated boiler water gauge
• Plated water filler
• Plated boiler port
• Plated front door
• With door louvres

Livery:

• BR Railfreight grey
• Solebar red stripe
• Full yellow ends
• Large bodyside double arrows
• Authentic livery colours and font types
• Semi-gloss finish
• Era 8

Hornby Recommends:

• BR Blue and Grey Mk1 and Mk2f coaches
• MGR hopper wagons
• Seacow and Sealion engineering wagons

History:

One of 263 Class 31s built by Brush at Loughborough, this example entered service in November 1960, allocated to March depot as D5664. Its career took it to Stratford, Finsbury Park, Tinsley, Norwich Thorpe and back to March by the end of the 1960s. 

In 1976, it returned to Finsbury Park and its last allocation was to Gateshead in 1978. From 1982, BR established its new Railfreight division and No. 31237 received the new standardised grey livery in 1986, albeit sporting a red stipe along the base of the bodysides - a livery variation carried by a number of Railfreight BR diesels. 

BR’s freight operations were taken over by EWS in the late 1990s and many of the older locomotives it inherited were withdrawn, No. 31327 being condemned in June 2000 and broken-up by 2004.