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412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted

412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted

SKU: ACC2865-DCC

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£266.66
£266.66

Detailed Description

Ruston 412427 was built new for Bowaters Packaging Ltd, for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent, leaving Boultham on 25 March 1957. The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945, with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia, and the manufacturing output had doubled by 1957. The pulpwood was unloaded from the ships berthed at the deep water jetty on the Thames and from there, the raw material was conveyed to the mills by the internal railway system. With the gradual decline in newsprint production, Thames Mills was closed and transferred into the ownership of Bowaters’ Northfleet Terminals Ltd group and in 1981 412427 was donated by NTL to the fledging North Downs Steam Railway, then to Chatham Dockyard, Stone (Dartford), and Tunbridge Wells, before finally moving to Oswestry, Shropshire in 2007 for use on the Cambrian Railway.

Sample Photographs are for illustrative purposes only. Detail variations will differ from model to model

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Klaus K.
Wonderful little gem

The model of the Ruston 88DS is a real success. The details are finely worked out, the paintwork appears to be of high quality, the driving characteristics are very good and the sound is fantastic. The weight of the small locomotive and the associated tractive power is impressive.
What would have made me and perhaps other continental European buyers even happier would have been a coupler pocket with an NEM standard shaft. I also know some narrow-gauge model railway enthusiasts who would like to buy the model if there was the option of changing the gauge to 22 or 16.5 mm wheelsets. The original was also built as a narrow gauge version.

I am also disappointed with the delivery modalities. At the last Guildex, staff at the Accurascale stand had assured me that shipping to Europe would be from Ireland. Unfortunately, my parcel came from the UK after all and when I asked, I was told that they had stopped shipping from Ireland a long time ago. Something doesn't add up.

Otherwise I am very satisfied and look forward to more high-quality models from Accurascale for 0 scale, perhaps a BR Grain Hopper or a Class 22?

Kind regards
Klaus Krueger

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