We have reduced a range of Heljan's highly detailed OO gauge Class 33 locomotives to bargain prices, with over half price discounts available across most of the current range!
A huge number of livery variations are included covering much of the lifespan of this popular diesel class - including BR green, BR blue, Railfreight, Civil Engineers, Cambrian Trains and Fragonset - so there's something for most layouts set from the 1960s to the early 2000s!
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Product Features
Highly detailed model with separately fitted parts including handrails, wipers, footsteps, full underframe relief, etched metal grilles, buffer beam details and more
Accurate tooling variations covering multiple subclasses and loco specific differences
Digital & Sound capability - 21-pin socket
5-pole motor with twin flywheels, all-wheel drive and pickups
Metal sprung buffers
Detailed cab interior
Independent directional lighting
Heavy diecast chassis
NEM tension lock couplings
Prototype Information
The British Rail Class 33, also known as the BRCW Type 3 or "Crompton", is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives. They were produced as a more powerful Type 3 development of the Class 26. This was achieved, quite simply, by removing the steam heating boiler and fitting a larger 8 cylinder 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. Thus, they 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 they were known as "Cromptons" after the Crompton Parkinson electrical equipment installed in them.
(Information provided via Wikipedia)