United Steel company - WGB2762 - 18 Livery_Loadhaul

United Steel company - WGB2762 - 18 Livery_LoadhaulThis attractively liveried Austerity was built in 1945 by W. G. Bagnall in Stafford and was one of the 377 locomotives built for the War Department and originally carried the number 75174. When demobbed, the locomotives was purchased by the United Steel Companies and put to work on the steelworks system at Scunthorpe. Externally a virtually standard Austerity, our model carries the heavy duty Yorkshire buffers that were fitted to the prototype when it

Ex D1478 and D1479 patterns

and most retained their original livery until they were finally retired several years later

Class 37/6 - 37607

Birchills B

Renumbered in 1973 under TOPS

With a 10ft wheelbase and 12-ton capacity

a first for RTR OO Scale

Converted from 1/119 and 1/120 diagrams at Perth between 1985 and 1987

Three styles of buffer: large round Oleo

saloon and railhead treatment trains

PR26844 (ladder)

Unpainted HYA with Touax branding