Bring home a Heljan OO Gauge Class 45 'Peak' for a cheap price! The entire range have now had their prices slashed by up to 43% off the RRP - with BR green and BR blue versions available from just £124.50.
This current run of models focuses on some of the more unusual liveries carried by the ever-popular ‘Peaks’ between the 1960s and late-1980s. These include BR ‘economy green’ (see above) and early BR blue with small yellow warning panels, depot specials and a couple of specially embellished BR Blue locomotives from the final years of the class.
Specification is as per Batch 1, including a 21-pin DCC decoder interface, fully switchable LED lighting functions, sprung buffers, exceptional fine detail and a huge range of authentic detail variations specific to each locomotive and livery.
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Product Features:
Highly detailed model with many separate parts including handrails, pipework, underframe relief, fans, windscreen wipers, sprung buffers and much more
Many acurate tooling variations:
Steam heat, boiler isolated and ETH variants with accurate roof and bodyside details
Split-centre, sealed beam and sealed beam with HI headlight nose ends
Vacuum or dual-braked options
Extensive bogie and underframe detail, including optional inner end sandboxes
Bodyside grille/plate arrangement tailored to individual locomotives
Accurate No2 end roof design for steam heat or ETH locomotives
Fine etched boiler step and grille covers
ETH equipment on bufferbeams (Class 45/1)
Digital & Sound capable - 21-pin socket (Plenty of internal space for DCC sound and a speaker)
Six-axle drive with 'floating' internal bogie units for smooth riding and heavy haulage power
Central 5-pole motor with flywheels
Heavy diecast metal chassis
Separately controlled cab lighting with magnetic 'wand' device suitable for DC and DCC use
Separately controlled LED tail lights
Directional LED headcode panel, marker light and HI headlights
Accurate detail variations
Intricate livery application & printing
Pack of optional detail parts
Improve your model with crew figures:
We stock these incredibly detailed 3D printed figures from ModelU, which are designed to perfectly match your Heljan Class 45.
Watch them in action:
See how some of our previous exclusive models, (now sold out - sorry!), performed at Jenny Kirk's Wear Yard layout...
Prototype Information
The British Rail Class 45 (aka ‘Sulzer Type 4) were a fleet of diesel locomotives, nicknamed ‘Peaks’ along with the similar Class 44 and 46 locos. The class became the main motive power on the Midland Main Line from 1962, allowing for considerably quicker services over the previous steam powered trains.
The class continued working on the MML until the early 1980s when they were relegated to secondary services following the introduction of HSTs to the line.
Later in their lives, the class plied their trade on North Trans-Pennine workings. 26 of the class were named after British Army regiments and the Royal Marines. Additionally, several were unofficially named.