GWR Manor - 7825 Lechlade Manor BR lined black w/early crest - DCC Sound MDO 26609 - CIE

26609 - CIE

We are delighted to team up with our Danish friends at Heljan to bring you a run of the former BR Oil tankers bought by CIE in the late 1960s and modified for Irish operations

Over the next 13 months

Works number ‘3806’ led an average working life

numbers and warning flashes – and nothing more

GWR Manor - 7825 Lechlade Manor BR lined black w/early crest - DCC Sound MDO 26609 - CIE7825 Lechlade Manor BR Lined Black (early crest)Named after a Victorian country house in Gloucestershire near the Oxfordshire border, No. 7825 Lechlade Manor carries its delivery scheme, the infamous lined black Riddles revenge scheme. This was an appropriate nickname for a Great Western designed machine wearing a livery inspired by the locomotives of the London & North Western Railway, but the image suited the elegantly proportioned 78XX locomotives