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    Heljan ‘OO’ ‘MacRat’

    Mar 30, 2020 5 minutes

    LONG-associated with the Scottish Region, the BRCW Class 27 or ‘MacRat’, a name shared with the Class 26, was a stalwart of the West Highland line and Edinburgh-Glasgow push-pull workings that saw the class divided into three distinct sub-classes.

    Built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) in 1961 and 1962, the Class 27s were numbered as D5347-D5415 and allocated to depots as far apart as Eastfield (Glasgow), Thornaby (Teesside) and Cricklewood (London). Leicester received an allocation as locomotives were transferred away from Cricklewood and Thornaby.

    The reallocation of Class 25s on the Midland Region resulted in the Class 27 becoming solely aScottish locomotive replacing the unreliable Clayton Class 17s.

    The majority were constructed with steam-heating and became Class 27/0 with TOPS, working on the West Highland line and Central Belt

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