5″ BR Class 17 Clayton Project
5inch BR Class 17 ‘Clayton’ model locomotive with BR GUV battery vehicle.
Phoenix power bogies with added detail
Steel chassis with plenty of detail
4QD Controller and handset
Multicell Batteries
Brian Jones soundcard
MDF bodywork painted in BR 2-tone Green livery. Working lights and fans as well as lamp brackets, windscreen wipers, cab windows, driver, secondman, dashboard, grills, doors etc.
This is a running project loco. There is a problem with the sound card which means the loco sound is constant and does not increase with speed. More seriously the loco seems to overheat after a few laps of the track. Requires investigation to fix this problem.
The BR Maroon GUV is included in the sale. This is the vehicle in which the main batteries are stored so they cannot split for sale.
Description
The British Rail Class 17 (also known as the Clayton Type 1) was a class of 117 Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives built 1962–1965 by Clayton Equipment Company and their sub-contractor Beyer, Peacock & Co., for British Railways (BR). Following problems with the single-cabbed pilot scheme Type 1 locomotives, the Class 17s were designed with a centre cab and low bonnets to maximise visibility for the driver. The low engine covers required the use of two Paxman 6ZHXL six-cylinder horizontal engines and these gave unreliable performance even after extensive modifications. The class proved to be one of the least successful of the Type 1s. Withdrawals took place from the late 1960s to 1971, some locomotives having a working life of less than five years. Several were sold to industrial users, but only one has been preserved.
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_17 ]
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