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North British diesel prototype

NEATLY timed for its return of the Modelrail exhibition in Glasgow after an absence of two years, Heljan announced that it was taking on another single locomotive prototype, this time the NBL diesel prototype No. 10800. It is an early main line prototype ordered by the LMS and bridging Nationalisation which places it outside the locomotive pilot scheme project.

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