Heljan OO 9006 Metropolitan Railway 6 William Penn Bo-Bo Metropolitan Vickers Electric Locomotive
Second batch of Metropolitan Railway Metropolitan-Vickers electric locomotives announced 2016.
Photos of number 8 shown for illustration purposes only.
A highly detailed model of the Metropolitan Railways' later Metropolitan-Vickers electric locomotives.
Built for express services on the Amersham line where the Metropolitan competed with the Great Central Railways' outer suburban services these locomotives passed into the ownership of the LPTB (London Transport) in 1933. Following replacement by multiple-unit trains in the early 1960s LT retained several locomotives for shutning and engineering work. Two survive today, 5 John Hampden displayed in the LT museum at Covent Garden and 12 Sarah Siddons, retained initially as a test locomotive to assess the performance of composite brake blocks No12 has been overhauled for railtour use, including being made suitable for working on the Southern 'third rail' network.
Heljan locomotives are designed with a heavy diecast chassis powered by a central placed motor with drive to all axles, providing plenty of train-pulling capacity. The bodyshell is finely detailed, nicely depicting the bodyside panelling and ventilation grilles.
This model depicts LT No.8 Sherlock Holmes as running in the 1950s with name and Metropolitan red livery restored.
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