United Steel company - WGB2762 - 18 Livery_Loadhaul Birchills B

Birchills B

saloon and railhead treatment trains

Renumbered in 1973 under TOPS

Ex D1478 and D1479 patterns

Converted from 1/119 and 1/120 diagrams at Perth between 1985 and 1987

United Steel company - WGB2762 - 18 Livery_Loadhaul Birchills BThis attractively liveried Austerity was built in 1945 by W. G. Bagnall in Stafford and was one of the 377 locomotives built for the War Department and originally carried the number 75174. When demobbed, the locomotives was purchased by the United Steel Companies and put to work on the steelworks system at Scunthorpe. Externally a virtually standard Austerity, our model carries the heavy duty Yorkshire buffers that were fitted to the prototype when it