R3880 Class 31 'Floreat Salopia' BR Civil Engineers Diesel Locomotive Brand_Scale-Model-Scenery The new site at Sheerness

The new site at Sheerness was built to produce steel to be made from scrap metal using the Electric Arc Furnace method instead of the more conventional smelting of iron ore in the Basic oxygen steelmaking process

this model from Scenecraft depicts a traditional half-timbered Tavern with brick chimneys and a thatched roof

Sitting alongside this much-loved flagship brew

Double DTM success

Ruby Series 2fn Standard DCC Decoder Plux22

R3880 Class 31 'Floreat Salopia' BR Civil Engineers Diesel Locomotive Brand_Scale-Model-Scenery The new site at Sheerness31147 Floreat Salopia entered traffic on 19 November 1959 as D5565, allocated to March Shed and the locomotive remained in East Anglia until 9 October 1965 when it moved north to Tinsley. Renumbered to 31147 under the TOPS scheme, the locomotive was one of three Class 31s fitted with Radio Electronic Token Blocks for use over the Cambrian route, also carrying BR Regional Railways branding over its 'Dutch' livery until it was named Floreat Salopia by