Revolution Trains is continuing its association with Martin House Children’s Hospice in Yorkshire by offering a limited edition version of 66190 Martin House Children’s Hospice – depicted in fully ‘bulled-up’ condition as it appeared at its naming in Summer 2023.
The model depicts the locomotive as it was superbly turned out with pristine finish, white-rimmed wheels and a newly fitted, untarnished exhaust silencer unit. The nameplates are printed on, but the model is also supplied with fine photo-etched versions for those who wish to fit them.
Bottom image courtesy Martin Elsey/Creative Commons
In common with all our 66s it features prototypically correct lights – in this case updated BMAC lighting clusters with outer headlights and and inner combined marker/red tail lights – along with driver rear view side mirrors and 66/0 style bodyshell, bogies and swinghead buckeye coupler fittings.
Martin House Children’s Hospice
Martin House is a registered charity providing family-led hospice care for children and young people with life-limiting illnesses across North, East and West Yorkshire.
It opened in 1987 and at the time was only the UK’s second dedicated children’s hospice. It has specialist bedrooms, family rooms and play rooms as well as landscaped gardens at its six acre site near Wetherby, and providing these services costs around £9m per year
DB’s 66190 was named Martin House Children’s Hospice in recognition of the incredible work done by the rail industry in raising more than £200,000 for the charity.
Revolution is delighted to have played a small part in that, through sales of our popular IIA-D biomass hoppers in association with Rails of Sheffield, and as a result Mike and Ben were invited to the naming ceremony back in 2023.
The beautifully pristine appearance of 66190 on the day made it an obvious candidate for a model, and now our 66 is here we are proud to unveil it.
The Revolution Drax Collection
66190 will join the 66301 in its eyecatching Drax gold livery and our previously released Drax IIA-D biomass hoppers in raising funds for Martin House, enabling us to give even more with your support.
This limited edition models are available exclusively from Revolution Trains, and only 100 have been produced in both DC Silent and DCC Sound versions.
Photos top to bottom courtesy Drax, Ian Broadhead, Gareth Pearson
66190 – a short history
66190 is one of the very first batch of 250 Class 66s built for English, Welsh and Scottish Railways (EWS); entering service in early 2000.
A year later it received the swinghead buckeye coupler that became almost universal on EWS locomotives, then in 2007 was assigned to Euro Cargo Rail and sent through the Channel Tunnel to France.
The locomotive did not return to Britain (other than briefly for maintenance) until 2021, when it was converted back to UK specification, receiving updated BMAC light clusters, but retaining its EWS livery, albeit debranded, until 2023 when it was given a full repaint into DB red and fitted with the colourful Martin House Children’s Hospice nameplates.