Class 155 - West Yorkshire PTE - 155345 - OO Scale

Class 155 - West Yorkshire PTE - 155345 - OO ScaleThe British Rail Class 155 diesel multiple unit (DMU) was introduced in 19871988. Built by Leyland at Workington, 42 two car units were produced using construction methods from the bus building industry. Shortly after entering service, structural faults, including body cracks, led to the fleet being temporarily withdrawn. Rather than restoring them as two car sets, British Rail split 35 units into single vehicles, creating the Class 153 between 1991

'Split' / 'single piece' style nose grilles at opposite corners

Four programmable buttons (two each side) for custom functions

An ESU Loksound DCC decoder which is custom programmed for Accurascale Class 55 locomotives

While most Mk

Our chosen example is BR Blue 31138

the conversion at BREL Crewe Works was completed in October 1986

Steam heat was not a requirement for the engineering trains so this was removed

Thames Mills was closed and transferred into the ownership of Bowaters’ Northfleet Terminals Ltd group and in 1981 412427 was donated by NTL to the fledging North Downs Steam Railway

A Class Locomotive 017

Ruston 262997 was built new for the West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority

Battery Louvres : No

This model completes the set of Freightliner locomotives in this run by representing a “low-emission” variant