NCB North East - VF5300 - 59 - DCC Sound HTO/HTV Hopper 55020 is also notable for

55020 is also notable for retaining the mountings for the cab roof horns worn during the early 1960s

Differing brake arrangements tooled: Morton single shoe per wheel pattern brakes and Morton Cam pattern (diagonally opposed)

IE 22000 Class 'ICR' - 3-car in 2020 IR livery

Hand finished and made to measure

83mm Gauge

NCB North East - VF5300 - 59 - DCC Sound HTO/HTV Hopper 55020 is also notable forThis Austerity was another wartime product, this time from the Vulcan foundry, Newton le Willows. It was completed in 1945 and allocated the WD number 75310. Following war dept service, the locomotive was purchased by the NCB and allocated to number 6 area, North West Durham. Particular to this area is the cut back cabs on all locomotives for working the restricted clearance of the tunnel on the entrance to Lambton coal drops at the port of