Updated ‘O’ Gauge ‘Rat’ from Heljan
Dec 18, 2018
4 minutes
THE Class 25/3 sub-class was the final development of British Railways’ Sulzer Type 2 Bo-Bo family, which began in 1958 as a ‘pilot scheme’ batch of 20 Class 24/0 locomotives for evaluation by BR and resulted in a total of 151 Class 24s entering traffic.
Class 25s followed the same basic design, but with a four-character headcode box above the cab and an uprated Sulzer 6LDA engine. A number of design changes took place during the production run of Class 25 locomotives, including the redesign of the body shell to clean up its appearance (locating bodyside ventilation grilles to the roof shoulder) and removing the front gangway doors.
By 1965, evolution of the design came to a close with
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