Black Label Class A4 returns for 2024

Originally released in 2016, the model featured significant diecast construction as well as an advanced steam generator system synched with a digital sound profile. Working with Dapol to update the Black Label A4, numerous major improvements to the steam and sound systems have been introduced.

The new batch comprises eight variations covering LNER and British Railways livery variations - with numerous different running numbers and names available to choose from. Several of these new liveries have never been produced in the range before.

Expected to arrive at the end of the year, the images shown are pre-production samples, so may not fully reflect the final releases. Priced at £399.00, a deposit of £50 is required at the time of pre-ordering, with the remaining balance taken when the locomotives arrive in stock.

Specification

• Highly detailed model with many separately fitted parts, including handrails, pipework, headlamps, lamp irons, whistle, numberplates and more
• Fully detailed cab, including separate fittings and cab doors
• Digital & Sound capability - Pre-fitted Zimo 21-pin decoder with pre-fitted twin speakers in the tender and locomotive body
• Entirely diecast construction
• Dapol’s Loco to tender easy coupling
• Powerful and Smooth 5 Pole skew wound motor with flywheel
• Loco driving wheels and tender wheels pick up
• Working front lamps
• Dynamic firebox flicker effect
• Hi-fidelity sound project recorded from Bittern
• Chuff sounds also operate in DC mode
• User-configurable RealDrive with working brake for prototypical driving experience
• Smoke generator controlled via decoder
• Valanced and unvalanced bodies
• Three tender variations
• Single and double chimneys

Available liveries

• Black Label Class A4 Mallard LNER Garter Blue (with Speed Plaque) Valanced 4-6-2 No.4468
• Black Label Class A4 Woodcock LNER Green Valanced 4-6-2 No.4493
• Black Label Class A4 Charles Newton Wartime Black Unvalanced 4-6-2 No.4901
• Black Label Class A4 Seagull LNER Garter Blue Unvalanced 4-6-2 No.33
• Black Label Class A4 Quicksilver Express BR Blue Unvalanced 4-6-2 No.60015
• Black Label Class A4 Merlin Experimental Purple Unvalanced 4-6-2 No.60027
• Black Label Class A4 Union of South Africa BR Green (Early Crest) Unvalanced 4-6-2 No.60009
• Black Label Class A4 Dwight D. Eisenhower BR Green (Late Crest) Unvalanced 4-6-2 No.60008

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