NCB South Wales - HE3810 - Glendower HTO/HTV Hopper

NCB South Wales - HE3810 - Glendower HTO/HTV HopperGlendower was one of the 93 locomotives completed by Hunslet in the years after the war. Works number 3810 was completed in 1954 and sold directly to the NCB. This locomotive was moved directly to the coalfields of South Wales and gained the name Glendower. It was withdrawn from Hafodyrynys, Crumlin in 1973. The engine was purchased from the NCB and moved to the South Devon Railway at Buckfastleigh in 1978. It returned to traffic and proved a valuable

They were also used to transport tools and machinery from Inchicore to depots around the network for on-site repairs

Apart from implementing the complete transition to diesel motive power

though pipes

Reinstated for service 3-Mar-97 and repainted into GNER blue with white logo (loco had been purchased in 1996 by Sea Containers)

P7 Hopper - NCB Ashington: NCB Red - Triple Pack

37426-37431 were originally planned to join the rest of the sub class on the Scottish Region

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Tapered or straight buffer housings where applicable

Originally part of the ‘Red Revolution’

British Railways Green Livery

Our model represents a “standard” Austerity

footplate & interior detail