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BACHMANN 31-535 OO SCALE Class 105 Cravens 2 Car DMU in BR blue with full yellow ends (Power Twin Unit). DCC Ready
Constructed by Sheffield train builders Cravens in response to BR orders for diesel multiple units the class 105 units had a distinctive 2-window front end.
Sets were built as 2-car units with one driving motor car and one driving trailer car and 3-car units, with two driving motor cars, one with a guards' van, flanking a trailer car. The central trailer cars were later dispensed with, converting the 3-car sets into 2-car sets with both cars powered. These 'power twin' sets offered a better power-to-weight ratio than the standard sets, very useful on routes with difficult gradients. Although the Cravens design was not perpetuated the company had built a quality product and the units ran into the 1980s, outlasting many other builders' trains.
This model is one of the power-twin sets painted in the BR plain blue livery with full yellow ends, as seen through the 1970s and 80s.
DCC Ready. Requires 1 8-pin and 1 6-pin decoder for DCC operation in order to control the directional lighting on both cars.
