Class 30 - D5501 BR Green Livery_British Gypsum Original nose grilles

Original nose grilles

These impressive wagons were built by Bombardier/Prorail of Wakefield in 1998 and designed to carry spent nuclear fuel from Royal Navy nuclear submarines from their bases at Devonport and Rosyth to Sellafield for disposal and typically ran with double headed Class 37/6 locomotives (also available from Accurascale here)

By its final repaint

D5501 BR Green with SYP

it was one of the first pair of Class 37/9s to gain the Roundel triple-grey livery in August 1988

Class 30 - D5501 BR Green Livery_British Gypsum Original nose grillesD5501 BR Green with SYP New to 30A Stratford in November 1957, D5501 was only the second Type 2 to be released from Brushs Falcon Works in Loughborough as part of the 20 strong Pilot Scheme batch of locomotives. The Hawker Siddeley owned company was so proud of their new 1,250hp A1A A1A machines that this particular example spent its first few weeks on display at its new acquired sister firm Mirrlees Hazel Grove factory, home of the 12 cylinder