Dapol Class 59
◆GAUGE ‘N’ ◆MODEL Dapol 2D-005-005 Class 59, 59001 Yeoman Endeavour, Aggregate Industries livery ◆PRICE £172.80 (DCC-ready) ◆AVAILABILITY Dapol stockists Web www.dapol.co.uk
Dapol first mooted a Class 59 for ‘N’ gauge way back in 2012 and, in the intervening years, Revolution Trains also began a project to replicate these landmark diesel locomotives.
Typically, both products arrived virtually simultaneously, and we reviewed the Revolution version in last month’s issue.
Here, we have Dapol’s rendition of the pioneer GM Type 5, 59001 Yeoman Endeavour, in the attractive Aggregate Industries livery, as applied in 2006 and still carried in 2024 (albeit in rather tatty condition when I saw it earlier this year).
All three sub-classes are catered for in this initial raft of models, with key liveries covering most of the careers of the ‘59s’ to date, while the tooling reflects many of the detail differences between the three batches.