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Built by Gram Shipley. Inspired by Gram's love of huge tires, and extraneous systems. Functional suspension fork and disc brake.
Rider: Ander Rae
Photo by Charles Edelson
My Heljan O gauge class 47, 47004 posed on my layout.
This loco was purchased by my dad from Tower Models in Blackpool in 2009, as D1942, which was one of their limited editions.
My dad passed away in 2013, and the loco stayed tucked up in its box, unopened until September 2024 when I was tidying up his loft and came across the loco.
Immediately I thought of converting it to pass as 47004, so thats what I did.
I removed the previous numbers, and added 47004's details with transfers from Fox, complete with its different numbers at opposite ends and additional decals.
I also added nameplates and shed plates from Shawplan.
I then sent the loco for sound fitting by local DCC expert Paul Hickman. Paul noted that several of the gears had disintegrated (as is usual with Heljan).
Paul kindly ordered some more and fitted the new ones, and now it works perfectly.
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John's mk2 Jetta project car that started out being used as a dumpster behind a building before he got his hands on it. He swapped the interior, fixed the body himself, had a hand from a friend re-spraying it, then installed a handful of awesome parts and is now in the midst of an ABA swap with a Neuspeed supercharger (which he's hoping to finish by H2oi).