Description
The Brush Type 4, better known as the Class 47, joins the Hornby TT:120 diesel fleet as an all-new model, researched and designed over several years. Its comprehensive tooling suite covers the many sub-classes and detail differences, from as-built 1960s BR green locomotives to those still at work today, and each model is offered DCC Ready or DCC Sound fitted.
Built under the BR Modernisation Plan to sweep steam from the network, 512 Class 47s were produced by Brush at Loughborough and at BR Crewe Works between 1962 and 1968, and were known as 'Brush 4s' before TOPS.
Completed at Loughborough in October 1963 as D1683, this locomotive went new to Old Oak Common but within a year had moved to Oxley, spending the rest of its career in the West Midlands. Repainted blue in 1971 and converted to electric train heating in 1973, it became 47485 under TOPS that December and worked passenger and freight turns until withdrawal in October 1993. It was cut up at Crewe four years later.
This version: TT3097 depicts No. 47485 in BR Large Logo Blue, Era 8, DCC Ready.
Features include:
• Highly detailed model based on extensive research and design
• Numerous tooling options available
• Diecast chassis
• Numerous separately fitted parts, including front end and cab handrails, etched roof fan grilles, cab steps, buffers, and underframe pipe details
• Detailed cab interior
• Powerful 5 pole motor providing power to all wheels
• Electrical pick-ups on all wheels
• Pivoting NEM coupling sockets
• Accessory pack that includes optional bufferbeam pipes
• Minimum 2nd radius curves
Tooling:
• Plated headcodes
• High intensity lights
• Full length cab roof vents
• Nose mounted ETH
• Loughborough one-piece bufferbeam bracket
• Bufferbeam cowling
• Round buffers
• Plated cab step
• Stones speedometer
• Removed water tanks
• Serck radiator grilles
• Plated Spanner boiler
Livery:
• BR Large Logo Blue
• Authentic livery colours and font types
• Semi-gloss finish
• Era 8
Electronics:
• Illuminating headcode, marker lights and cab lights
• Next18 DCC Decoder Socket compatible with HM7000 system
• Decoder socket housed underneath clip-fit body for easy access
• Space for R7426 Power Bank Mini for uninterrupted running
DCC: DCC Ready with a Next18 decoder socket under the clip-on body, compatible with the Hornby HM7000 Bluetooth/DCC system. Space for the R7426 Power Bank Mini.
Pairs well with:
• BR Blue & Grey Mk1/Mk2E/Mk2F coaches
• BR InterCity Executive/Swallow Mk2E/MK2F coaches
• MGR hopper wagons
• HBA/HEA hopper wagon
• Seacow/Sealion hopper wagons
• TEA/TTA tank wagon
Pre-order now. Expected release: March 2028 (Hornby's scheduled date, subject to change). Images may be pre-production samples or renders and the final model may differ.
