Dapol STROUDLEYx4 Set of 4 Terrier A1 Tank Locomotive & Stroudley 4 Wheel Coaches

Consists of:

1X 7S-010-021 Terrier A1 LBSC Improved Green Wapping 0-6-0 Tank Locomotive No.71

1X 7P-020-200L Stroudley 4 Wheel Suburban Oil Lit 2nd Mahogany 507 - Light Bar Fitted

1X 7P-020-001L Stroudley 4 Wheel Suburban Oil Lit Brake 3rd Mahogany 917 - Light Bar Fitted

1X 7P-020-002L Stroudley 4 Wheel Suburban Oil Lit Brake 3rd Mahogany 918 - Light Bar Fitted

Terrier A1 Tank Locomotive

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) A1 Class is an English class of 0-6-0T steam locomotive. Designed by William Stroudley, 50 members of the class were built in 1872 and between 1874 and 1880, all at Brighton Works. The class has received several nicknames, initially being known as "Rooters" by their south London crews. However, the engines were more famously known as "Terriers" on account of the distinctive 'bark' of the exhaust beat.

Originally known as 'A' class, these diminutive tank locomotives were designed in 1870 to haul commuter trains on the heavily congested lines in South and South-East London. These included routes from London Bridge to both East and West Croydon, London Victoria to Sutton and the line from Victoria to London Bridge via Peckham Rye and Denmark Hill, as well as operating on the East London Railway under the Thames through the Thames Tunnel designed by Marc Isambard Brunel. Six locomotives were built for these services during 1872, and were successful thanks to their high acceleration between the closely spaced station stops and the use of lightweight trains. A further 44 were built between June 1874 and September 1880 to complement the original six.

They were distributed across most of the GWR network and, after nationalisation of the railways in 1948, across the British Railways Western Region, and also other regions.

MODEL
These great little models feature lots of details including external pipe work, directional lighting, and finely printed external logos and numbering.

FEATURES

• Sprung metal buffers
• Beautifully Painted Body
• Complete firebox glow and flicker
• All Wheel Pick-up and all wheel drive
• Cast Profiled Wheels with Appropriate Colouring
• Die Cast running plate for extra quality and weight
• Exquisitely detailed body with many added detailed parts
• Powerful 5 Pole Motor with Refined Gearing for slow running control

SPECIFICATIONS

• CLASS A1X "Terrier"
• LIVERY LBSC Improved Engine Green
• ERA 4 (1948 - 1956)
• WHEEL CONFIGURATION 0-6-0
• DECODER 21 Pin Ready
• SOUND Use Soundtraxx STX881106 Steam Sound Decoder (Speaker Required)
• COUPLINGS Three Link
• TRACK SUPPLY 12v DC
• PAINT FINISH Pristine

Stroudley 4 Wheel Coaches

Dapol announced at the 2018 Dapol Collectors Club open day that they were busy planning their next UK based production project, the O Gauge Stroudley 4-wheel coach. These coaches will be produced at our facility in Chirk by their dedicated and skilled workforce. They will represent a major step up in the level of model complexity that Dapol manufacture currently. Their whole team is relishing both the challenges and the opportunities that this project promises.

These carriages were constructed between 1870 and 1890 totalling more than 1,500 for local and main line sets. The sets consisted of between eight and eleven coaches each 26ft long on a 15ft wheelbase and were originally close coupled with a bar but later some modified main line coaches were fitted with short buffers and amalgamated into the suburban sets, only the brake ends had long buffers.

Braking initially was only available through the guards hand brake, but later all coaches were fitted with Westinghouse air brakes. Lighting was originally by oil lamps, however many coaches were later converted to gas lighting, and from 1881 some sets were fitted with electric lighting with a dynamo in the brake coach.

Dapol will be offering the oil lit varnished mahogany liveried coaches in the first run. Later, they shall be offering different liveries, and details including gas and electric lighting and Westinghouse brakes. As a minimum a modeller will require one x All Third Brake to operate a train of these coaches. On the suburban range of these coaches the interconnection between coaches will be provided by a prototypical draw bar, only the outer most end of the brave will be fitted with a standard coupling to connect the coaches to the locomotive.

Main line versions of the coach will be fitted with standard three link couplings and short buffers at both ends of each coach. All Brake 3rd coaches will have the prototypical longer buffers at the brake end of the coach.

FEATURES

• Diecast compensated chassis for excellent riding characteristics
• Superbly detailed body with many separately added detailed parts
• Metal sprung buffers (outer end of brake only)
• Expertly applied livery and decoration
• Other Variations and Classes are available
• Two lengths of close coupling bar will be offered with these coaches - A short coupling bar to be used with buffer free coaches and Billington (the successor engineer to Stroudey) conversion to buffers on one coach. A long coupling bar with be offered for converted main line coaches with buffers on both coaches.
• All close coupled coaches will be able to negotiate R2 curves.
• An ideal coach to be hauled by the Dapol Terrier Locomotives.

SPECIFICATIONS

• MANUFACTURER Stroudley
• COACH TYPE 4 Wheel Suburban
  
• RUNNING NUMBER 507, 917 & 918
• COLOUR Mahogany
• LIGHTING VARIATION Oil Lit (Light Bar Fitted)
• PAINT FINISH Pristine