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Gas Turbine loco 18000

18000 was a prototype mainline gas turbine-electric locomotive built for British Railways in 1949 by Brown, Boveri & Cie. It had, however, been ordered by the Great Western Railway in 1946,but construction was delayed. It spent its working life on the Western Region of British Railways, operating express passenger services from Paddington station, London.

At the end of 1960 18000 was withdrawn from operation and was stored at Swindon Works for four years. It then returned to mainland Europe, where for more than ten years it was used, in substantially altered (and no longer gas-turbine-powered) form, for experiments concerning the interaction between steel wheels and steel rails, under the auspices of the International Union of Railways.
In the early 1990s it was secured for preservation. It returned to the UK and initially  kept at The Railway Age, Crewe. then moved to DidcotRailway Centre.

Requires chassis,wheels etc



TT scale (1/100 3mm/ft)