IRISH RAILWAY MODELS A CLASS
Aug 12, 2021
3 minutes
Words & photography: Andy York
Although Irish-outline models may not be your thing, this review signals what the forthcoming Accurascale Deltics, Class 37s and 92s maybe like as the two businesses are intrinsically linked.
60 of these Co-Co locomotives were ordered by CIE from Metropolitan-Vickers and were built at Dukinfield Works, Manchester between 1955 and 1956 as part of a plan to implement mass dieselisation of the Irish railway network.
Initially, the locomotives were fitted with an eight-cylinder, two-stroke Crossley unit developing 1,200 horsepower and deployed across the country, working express passenger and
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