Expected Delivery Q4 2026 (Subject to Change at Manufacturer's Discretion).

Completed by Brush Traction in December 1993 and named after the prolific English writer H.G. Wells, No. 92002 spent its early years undergoing testing: first at the Railway Technical Centre, Derby, then at the Velim test track near Prague, and finally at the Arsenal complex near Vienna, Austria.

Repatriated to the UK in time for the Crewe Basford Hall Open Day in August 1995, it was officially taken into stock in October 1996 at Crewe International Electric Maintenance Depot — some two years after the Channel Tunnel’s opening. Initially, it worked trains between Dollands Moor and North London via the ‘classic’ third-rail route (once cleared by Railtrack). After English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) took over Railfreight Distribution in November 1997, 92002 soon began working the full length of the West Coast Main Line between Mossend and Wembley, with East Coast Main Line services following a couple of years later.

By the end of the decade, now defaced with an EWS “big beasties” sticker, 92002 was stored in December 2008. It was later reinstated after the sale to DB Schenker in November 2012, spending time hired to Direct Rail Services in 2014 before being sidelined again in November that year.

Exported to Romania in April 2015 (renumbered 91 53 0472 003-9 and named Lucian Blaga), the locomotive later moved to Transagent Rail in Croatia in 2018. After several years of service, it is now stored at Dunakeszi Works in Budapest, Hungary.

Common Features:

• Highly detailed OO scale model, 1:76.2
• Die-cast Alloy metal chassis
• Provided Factory DCC Silent Fitted or Factory DCC Sound Fitted
• Separately applied etched metal and high fidelity plastic detail parts, including grab handles, steps, wipers, nameplates, crests and more.
• Correct height mini-tension-lock couplers with NEM socket as well as a fully detailed bufferbeam
• High Performance traction, to include;
• High End Five-Pole motor with two flywheels
• Helical Gear box for maximum performance and slow speed running
• Gearing arranged for accurate top speed
• PowerPack Stay Alive capacitor for uninterrupted power
• All wheel drive and all wheel pickup
• Dual motorised Pantographs with full DCC control
• Fully detailed Lighting Pack, including:
• Directional lighting
• Lighting clusters with appropriate day and night-time modes
• Red and white marker lights
• Separately switched cab lighting and illuminated, details driver’s console, auto off on movement
• RP25-110 wheels OO wheels
• Hi-Fi speaker system with large sound capsules for best possible sound on sound fitted models.
• Fully sprung metal buffers

Minimum Radius 438mm (2nd Radius Set-track)