Class 30 - BR Green - D5503D5503 BR green (as delivered)Our third Toffee Apple release represents D5503 as delivered to 30A Stratford depot in January 1958 after it quickly settled into life around East London and on the ex Great Eastern and Midland & Great Northern Joint lines in East Anglia working almost any services that its home shed could throw at it. The 1,250hp Mirrlees Type 2s were not uprated like their production colleagues and along with the English Electric Type 1s

11 70 9229 002-4 (w/tail light)

Among the more distinctive wagon types to appear was a series of bulk grain hoppers developed from the H Van design

By the early 1950s many panniers were fitted with top feed boilers

2 end only

Converted to Class 37/4 configuration in December 1985 its new specification included various cosmetic upgrades as well as electric train heat (ETH) capability rated at 30

this staple of Cornish railway scene were withdrawn and replaced by the air braked CDA wagons in 1988

There were 25 examples of this sub-class

22350 A3 DMSO with blue doors and large accessibility icons

9681 was one of the last pannier tanks to be built

Super fine separate plastic

Initially subsisting on a diet of trains between Dollands Moor and North London over the ‘classic’ third rail route - once cleared by Railtrack - it joined English Welsh & Scottish Railway on its takeover of Railfreight Distribution in November 1997 and by the end of the decade the dual-voltage locomotive could be found with ‘pan’ up working the full length of the West Coast Main Line between Mossend and Wembley

The two sets were divided between the 3rd Brake and 2nd Brake