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T Class Diesel Loco

Stock Update: ALL T Class locos are now Sold Out!

Model specifications:

Gauge: HO 16.5mm	Scale: 1/87 3.5mm = 1ft
Wheel profile: NMRA RP25 profile	Wheel dimensions: Diameter: 12mm [40"]
Wheel dimensions: Width: 2.75mm	Wheel dimensions: Flange: 0.75mm
Couplers: Knuckle coupler fitted

The T Class
Loco Number	Colour Scheme	Price

Series 2 High Nose
T 358 (Full valance)	VR Blue	SOLD OUT
T 359 (Full valance)	VR Blue	SOLD OUT
T 362 (Cutaway valance)	V/Line Orange and Grey	SOLD OUT
T 364 (Cutaway valance)	V/Line Orange and Grey	SOLD OUT
Series 3 Low Nose
T 375	VR Blue	SOLD OUT
T 408	VR Blue	SOLD OUT
T 368	V/Line Orange and Grey	SOLD OUT
T 387	V/Line Orange and Grey	SOLD OUT
T 374	Freight Australia Green	SOLD OUT
T 388	Freight Australia Green	SOLD OUT
T 377	Great Northern	SOLD OUT
T 381	Great Northern	SOLD OUT

Order form - T Class

T class order form - No longer available - T Class is now Sold Out

T Class Prototype Information

The Victorian Railways T class was introduced into service between August 1955 and March 1969 and displayed three distinctive bodystyles.

The first series consisted of twenty seven locomotives, numbered T 320 to T346, was known as the "Flat-top" T due to their distinctive body design.

The second series, which was slightly shorter than the first series, had a distinctive raised cab and was numbered from T347 to T359 and T361 to T366. The second bodystyle began entering service in June 1959.

As further T class entered service during the 1960s running changes took place to their appearance, resulting in T360 and T367 to T412, plus the 5 H class, being built with lower noses, to improve visibility when the loco was operating short end leading.

Similar locos also operated at the Fyansford (1 loco) and with BHP at Whyalla, SA (2 locos), though these were all 3ft 6in gauge, rather than the 5ft 3in of the Victorian Railways locos. The Fyansford loco was eventually sold to the VR after the Fyansford system closed in 1967 and was numbered (2nd) T 413 in September 1969. The first T 413 was renumbered H 1 on delivery in early 1969.

In VR days the T class hauled both Main and Branch line trains all over the Broad Gauge network, while after 1962 a number were transferred to the newly opened Standard Gauge line from Albury to Melbourne. During the 1980's the old Victorian Railways became V/Line, which meant a new livery for the surviving T class, and co-incident with repainting into the new V/Line Orange and Grey the second series received alterations to the valances along the edge of the footplate, substantially reducing the height of these items. During the early 1990s an number of third series T class were sold to Australian National, becoming their CK class, and they were repainted in AN's Green and Yellow livery.