Class 153 - EMT Stagecoach - 153311 - OO Scale - DCC Sound FittedSkateboard, Dogbox, Tin Rocket call them what you like but Class 153s have been a familiar part of the UK railway scene for more than 30 years. Reaching almost every corner of the network, from Penzance to the Highlands of Scotland and Fishguard to Lowestoft, they are one of the few go anywhere trains and the perfect single vehicle train for any layout. Destinations Derby Crewe

A triple pack of CIE / Irish Rail Two-axle Gypsum Ore Hoppers - Pack A

FEA-F Network Rail black RHTT (twin pack) - 642009 Sandite+Tank+Tank & 642032 Sandite+Water+Tank (Pack 2)

The locomotives evolved through different liveries

66004 was treated to its eye catching ‘Climate Hero’ livery during 2021 as part of a program to promote freight on rail by owners DB

and each waggon depicted is based on photographic evidence and reference to colliery records to confirm lettering styles

It soon settled back into a varied selection of freight duties anywhere between Dollands Moor and Mossend

they were removed after just four months and the locomotive was renamed Eisteddfod Genedlaethol – after the famous festival – in the August

66190’s first turn in the limelight came on the 19th July 2003 when it hauled the Mossend to Inverness leg of Pathfinder Tours’ Grampian Gyrator

leaving Boultham Works on 27 January 1949 for the Birchills Power Station in Walsall

with blue doors/cycle graphic - DCC Sound Fitted

This was an appropriate nickname for a Great Western-designed machine wearing a livery inspired by the locomotives of the London & North Western Railway

By the late 1930’s 7755 gained the then new “shirt button” GWR logo and was transferred to Llanelly shed