Ace Trains E/39-H BR 10001 BR Corporate Gloss Blue with Full Yellow Ends No.10001 Diesel Locomotive
Product Details
| SKU | ACE-E/39-H |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Ace Trains |
| Categories | Ace Trains Best selling products Diesel Locomotives Locomotives New products O Gauge Diesel Locomotives O Gauge Locomotives O Gauge scale |
| Scale | O Gauge |
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Product Description
Box Specification:
- All metal construction
- Precision engineered
- Individually tested by ACE Trains
- 2 Rail or 3 Rail Running (Switchable)
- Sound on-off function switch
- Operates on 0-20V DC
- Will run on radii down to 2ft
- Operating directional cab lights
- Supplied with jewelled lamps & discs
About ACE Trains
ACE Trains have established their products as the most desirable and collectable O gauge model trains available today – faithful to time honoured traditions of craftsmanship and attention to detail, which were established in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
History
The LMS 10000 and 10001 were the first mainline diesel locomotives constructed and operating in Great Britain.
They were built in association with English Electric by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway under the auspices of the then chief engineer H. G. Ivatt at its Derby Works, using an English Electric 1600 hp diesel engine generator and electrics.
10000 entered service just three weeks prior to the formation of British Railways and therefore 10001 initially ran with neither LMS insignia or any BR makings for over a year and the LMS was not removed from 10000 until 1951.
Both locos initially ran singularly on trains operating from St Pancras on Derby and Manchester trains.
Starting in the summer of 1949 they were used running in pairs on the London Euston – Glasgow, Royal and Mid-Day Scot trains proving very successful in not needing any banking assistance over Shap and Beattock gradients and regularly reducing the time to Carlisle by over one hour.
They were also often seen on the west coast main line running singularly on long distance freight trains and local passenger trains to Watford.
In 1953 they were both transferred to the Southern Region of BR for comparison purposes with the SR’s 10201-10202-10203 type diesel locos running singularly on West of England express trains.
In 1955 all five of these locos were transferred to the west coast mainline and after modifications at Derby works emerged in BR green livery and based at Willesden for use on the most important express trains out of London Euston.
At that time they were officially classified as 5P/5F type and therefore comparable with a class 5MT BR type loco.