Heljan 9007 London Transport 11 George Romney Metropolitan Railway Electric Locomotive OO
Heljan 9007 OO Gauge London Transport 11 George Romney ex-Metropolitan Railway Bo-Bo Metropolitan Vickers Electric Locomotive London Transport Livery
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 shunting 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 and degradation rates of composite brake blocks under working conditions No12 survived to be recognised as a valuable heritage item and 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.
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