Model Year Details
2001 - Class 86 Electric Locomotive - The Rail Charter Partnership
86261
Running Number: 86261
Category: Diesel Electric Locomotives
Locomotive Class: Class 86 (AL6)
Designer: British Railways
Class Information: British Railways Modernisation Plan put forth plans in the late 1950’s to electrify large parts of the network using 25-kV AC electric over-head catenary. Subsequently plans were put forth by BR for five prototype designs to be built in sufficient quantities in order to evaluate locomotives, resulting in the AL6, later Class 86. More...
Weight: 81 tons
Purpose: Mixed Traffic
Wheel Arrangement: BO-BO
Model Information: Length - 230mm.
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Company: EWS - English, Welsh and Scottish Railway
Logo: EWS Logo
Logo Years: 1996 - 2007
Livery: EWS Maroon & Yellow
Livery Details: Maroon with yellow stripe.
Company Information: EWS is the largest British rail freight company, formed after the break-up of British Rail.
Catalogue Number: R.2159
Year Information: With the acquisition of all the main freight services, EWS obtained several Class 86 locomotives. In the future each of these locomotives will be painted in the EWS corporate colours and will be seen on the UK rail system where overhead wires are utilised. The correctly coloured Hornby model includes a working pantograph that can pick up current from a suitable overhead power system. The model can also be powered from the track in the conventional way.
Model Motor: Ringfield
Publication: Hornby - OO Scale Model Railways - Forty-Seventh Edition 2001
Publication Type: Catalogue
Publication Edition: 47th Edition
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