8750 Class - 8763 - Early Emblem Lined Black - DCC Sound Fitted

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8750 Class - 8763 - Early Emblem Lined Black - DCC Sound Fitted8763. British Railways Lined black livery, with Early Emblem This locomotive was built at Swindon in 1933 and allocated to Old Oak Common where it spent its entire working life. By the early 1950s many panniers were fitted with top feed boilers. In contrast to the more common plain black livery, 8763 was treated to full mixed traffic lining as its duties included working empty coaching stock in and out of London Paddington. It was withdrawn in 1962.

After 1926

At Stargate Colliery

Era specific Fyffe's Labels

and may not be fully indicative of the final model

NOTE: the 4-Ohm speaker is not compatible with any accurascale locomotive / decoder combination manufactured after 2020

Scale-sized Brecknall-Willis High Speed pantograph raised and lowered by DCC control

Wagons are 240mm over buffers in length and 160g

Mixed Q3 Hopper - Grouping transition period: 1910-22 NER Blue/1923-37 LNER Grey - Triple Pack

Repainted in the controversial general grey paint scheme in May 1990

wooden cab roof was retained

1 end also featured various sockets for connecting to the test coaches

Initial allocation was to Tyseley but was soon sent North to Birkenhead