Class 50 - BR Blue Pre-refurbishment - 50035 'Ark Royal' - DCC Sound Available When demobbed

When demobbed

the four roof exhausts of the English Electric design were notorious for quickly turning the standard Rail grey roof filthy

The fun couldn’t last and it was stored unservicable by new owners EWS in November 1998 after being stopped with radiator issues a few weeks earlier

Both of these features are faithfully recreated on the model

then with Morton single shoe per wheel pattern brakes when anti-friction gear removed

Class 50 - BR Blue Pre-refurbishment - 50035 'Ark Royal' - DCC Sound Available When demobbedIllustrating the breadth of the Accurascale Class 50 tooling suite is 50035, one of three members of the fleet to gain plated headcode panels during 1977 8 with sealed beam marker lights along with Nos. 50003 and 50007, the latter at the No. 1 end only. In January 1978 the ten year old locomotive become the first of the newly minted Warship class to be honoured with nameplates following the easing of the ridiculous embargo on new namings. The Laira