5603 Class 56 Railfreight 'Red Stripe' Grey Heavy Freight Diesel Locomotive Scale_O-Gauge Painted wheel faces to eliminate

Painted wheel faces to eliminate toy-like shiny effect of chemically blackened wheels

2 built-in locomotive card readers

A slide in PCB offers simple ‘tool-free’ installation of a NEXT-18 DCC decoder and a ’no-solder’ speaker connection

Many famous named trains such as the Flying Scotsman

indirectly illuminated girder supports

5603 Class 56 Railfreight 'Red Stripe' Grey Heavy Freight Diesel Locomotive Scale_O-Gauge Painted wheel faces to eliminateThe first of BR's heavy Type 5 freight diesels, introduced to cope with an increase in coal traffic after the 1973 oil crisis. The first 30 were built by Electroputere in Romania under sub contract from Brush, while the rest were constructed by BREL at Doncaster (56031 115) and Crewe (56116 135). Although they were retired by EWS in 2003, a number have been reactivated for use by freight companies such as Colas, UK Rail Leasing and, soon, GB