Dapol announced plans for a newly-tooled Great Western Railway (GWR) ‘63XX’ 2-6-0 at the recent International ‘N’ Gauge Show.
Six models are planned initially with three GWR variants, a BR black with early crests version and examples in BR green with early or late crests.
Dapol’s new ‘N’ gauge models are based on the later Churchward build, from numbers 5390-7321. The prototypes were built at Swindon Works between 1920-1923 with the final eight (6362-6369) in 1925 under Collett.
The model features a die-cast split-frame chassis for live bearing pick-up as well as a die-cast footplate with detailed cab interior, blackened nickel-plated driving wheels with brass bearings, all-wheel pick-up and a coreless motor driving the rear wheels.
The locomotive comes DCC ready with provision for a Next18 decoder in the tender and space for a cube speaker.
Detail options include Churchward taper buffers, Collett straight-shank buffers, tall vacuum pipes for early versions and lower vacuum pipe for later period versions, smokebox mounted brackets for both GWR and BR periods and smokebox numberplates for BR versions.
Prices are set at £170 DCC ready, £205 DCC fitted and £280 DCC sound-fitted. Currently at the CAD drawing stage, a release date has yet to be confirmed.
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