Bachmann OO BR 1764 Brush Type 4 Class 47 Two-Tone Green with Yellow Ends & Headcode Box (32-801)

Bachmann OO BR 1764 Brush Type 4 Class 47 Two-Tone Green with Yellow Ends & Headcode Box (32-801) | Antics Online

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Bachmann set new standards for model locomotives using a heavy die-cast chassis with centrally placed motor to drive two axles on both trucks of the mainline locomotives. Shunters benefit from extra weight and low gearing as well. 2004 marked the 15 years of Bachmanns' British range and the locos have steadily improved, particularly with the introduction of Blue Riband range, and combine realism and detail with scale speed and train pulling performance. Take a look at the superb weathered versions of many locomotives. Just the way they looked after a few hundred miles out on the tracks.

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Bachmann OO BR 1764 Brush Type 4 Class 47 Two-Tone Green with Yellow Ends & Headcode Box (32-801)

Bachmann's new class 47 model features a heavy chassis with six-axle drive from a centrally mounted 5-pole motor, directional lighting and correct radiator grilles for each locomotive/period depicted.

1764 is painted in the two-tone green livery with full yellow ends. Application of the D prefix for diesel locomotives was discontinued after 1968 and 1764 was given the TOPS number 47169 in Jan 1974.

Model fitted with 21-pin DCC decoder socket

Ordered on September 28 1962, D1764 was completed at Brush's Falcon Works in Loughborough as works number 526, being accepted into BR service on September 8th 1964. The locomotive was sent to Tinsley (41A) shed, but in 1965 began a tour of Eastern region sheds around London and East Anglia, including stays at March, Finsbury Park and Stratford.

The locomotive was renumbered under the TOPS numbering system in January 1974 and returned to Tinsley. The locomotive was possibly repainted into BR blue about this time and, after transfer bvack to Stratford again in 1978, that sheds' trademark silver roof was added. 47169 was named Great Eastern in 1979 and electric train heating supply equipment was added late in 1979, the former 1764 now becoming 47/4 type 47581 Great Eastern.

The nameplates were removed in 1990 when the locomotive moved to the Western region and was renumbered 47763 in 1994, by now owned by EWS and painted in RES red livery. Withdrawn from service in February 2003, the end came at Motherwell in September 2003 when the locomotive was cut up at Motherwell by Sandbach Car & Commercial Dismantlers.

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