Dapol 4S-009-004S Class 28xx / 2884 2884 Shirt Button Green 2-8-0 Steam Locomotive - DCC Sound Fitted
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Product Details
| SKU | 4S-009-004S |
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| Vendor | Dapol |
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Product Description
Expected Delivery TBC 2025 (Subject to change at Manufacturer's Discretion).
2884 will be sporting a Great Western green livery with the GWR Shirt Button on the tender side. It will have a curved footplate drop at the front of the locomotive, parallel buffers, a large pony truck bell cover and the top front lamp bracket will be mounted on the smoke box. This locomotive has outside steam pipes and a small boiler cradle. It has the Collett cab with the sand boxes situated forward of the cab. The boiler is crowned with a straight chimney and large safety valve bonnet and fire iron cover 2884 will be paired with a smooth sided tender.
28xx / 2884 Prototype
The GWR prototype 2-8-0 locomotive 2800 (originally No 97) was built in 1903 and underwent two years of trials before further production began which resulted in 84 of the class being built. The design was much in advance of its time and this class and the slightly modified 2884 class were built from 1903 until 1942. They remained the standard freight design on the GWR for the rest of the Company’s existence and were used on the heaviest freight trains.
Model Features
General Specification
Many original GA drawings were used in the development of these accurate and authentic models.
Building on the many developments from the Dapol Mogul and Manor Class models including Dapol's award winning slide in PCB in the boiler for tool free DCC fitting and sugar cube speaker enclosure (for sound models) and conductive drawbar providing tender wheel pick-up and connections for high bass speaker.
The locomotive will have all of the usual refinements that are expected to be found on all Dapol models including:
- A diecast compensated chassis
- Detailed cab interior with screw reverse
- The front pony truck is also sprung and operates on a cam so the model will negotiate R2 curves with ease
- Churchward top feed boiler
- Original and later Boiler support/motion bracket
- Churchward vertical drop & curved drop Footplates
- Churchward (tapered) & Collet (Straight) sprung buffers
- Smoke boxes with inside or outside steam pipes GWR & BR smoke box doors (with separately added number plate)
Technical Specification
- A slide in PCB offers simple ‘tool-free’ installation of a NEXT-18 DCC decoder and a ’no-solder’ speaker connection.
- This board slides through the smoke box door and connects directly to the locomotive mother board.
- The tender to locomotive drawbar includes reliable electrical connections moulded within the close-coupling push-fit coupling. This eliminates wired plugs and unreliable wiper style connections.
- The locomotive and tender have electrical pick-up on all driving and tender wheels
- An optional base reflex speaker can be fitted into the tender. An audio frequency filter is integrated within the main locomotive PCB to ensure each speaker reproduces within it’s ideal frequency range*
- Firebox glow (synchronised with sound*)
- Dapol’s proven slow speed mechanism and high torque motor
- Enhance your driving experience with our feature RealDrive*