24 July 2024
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The Dapol design team has very recently received an early EP of the N Gauge GWR 2-6-0 Mogul and has shared some new images.
There are some gaps that need closing up and there are some fitment/alignment issues with some of the parts but these are jobs that the factory is already working on resolving. Also of note is the coal load, and fine details such as rivets have yet to be finalised in the tooling.
The model ran very well on Dapol's test track and negotiated R2 curves and medium point work without issue.
Specification
- Diecast boiler and footplate
- Smokebox with/without cylinder steam pipes
- Churchward tapered buffers
- Collett straight shank buffers
- Tall vacuum pipe for early version
- Lower vacuum pipe for later period
- Tall safety valve cover
- Highly detailed cab interior
- Diecast chassis – split frames for live bearing pick-up
- Blackened nickel-plated diecast driving wheels
- Brass bearings
- Wheels to NMRA standard
- Coreless motor
- Firebox Glow - as far as we know this is a first for British outline N Gauge
- Space for sugar cube speaker in tender
The model is expected to arrive early next year and costs £183.60 DCC Ready, £221.40 DCC-Fitted and £302.40 Sound-Fitted and will be available in the following liveries;
- 2-6-0 Mogul 6336 Green 'Great Western'
- 2-6-0 Mogul 6385 Green Shirt Button
- 2-6-0 Mogul 7301 Green GWR
- 2-6-0 Mogul 6324 BR Black Early Crest
- 2-6-0 Mogul 6336 BR Green Early Crest
- 2-6-0 Mogul B4 Green Late Crest
About the prototype
The series of models being manufactured by Dapol are to the later Churchward build from numbers 5390 through to 7321, constructed between 1920 and 1923, with the final eight (6362-6369) in 1925 under Collett. These Collett locomotives had outside cylinder steam pipes fitted from new, whilst this feature was added to the majority of the earlier batch from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. The last to be withdrawn was 6395 on 21-11-1964.
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