Offering a new model 00 gauge especially developed by “Heljan Model Railways” as part of their recent prototype series. This engine is the Class 27 BR Green, Full Yellow Ends 27 001, Heavily Weathered 2730.
British Rail‘s Class 27 comprised 69 diesel locomotives built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) during 1961 and 1962. They were a development of the earlier Class 26; both were originally classified as the BRCW Type 2.
The class 27s had 1250hp 6LDA28B Sulzer engines and GEC electrical equipment and had maximum speed of 90mph. The locos also differed from the class 26s by having a headcode box above the cab windows.
The first 23 locos, D5347-D5369 locos delivered to the Scottish region based at Eastfield (although D5347/48 spent their first month at Thornton Junction)
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