Dazzling Shine

	Dazzling Shine
			Statistics
			Type	Common Steam  (100%)
			Power	65
			Slot	1
			Tax	3,800
			Dispatch XP	345
			Set	Dazzling Shine (+45%)
Offer Information
Offer Type	Offer Date	Cost	Buy XP	Level	Restrictions
Special	24 Dec 2013	325	325,000	90	Limit: 1
Vintage	21 Dec 2014	275	59,000	50	Limit: 2
Limited	30 Nov 2020 - 4 Jan 2021	430	40,000,000	500	Limit: 10
		4,000,000,000		530	Limit: 1
Museum
The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacifics or informally as Spam Cans, are air-smoothed 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid. Incorporating a number of new developments in British steam locomotive technology, they were amongst the first British designs to use welding in the construction process, and to use steel fireboxes, which meant that components could be more easily constructed under wartime austerity and post-war economy. They were designed to be lighter in weight than their sister locomotives, the Merchant Navy class, to permit use on a wider variety of routes, including in the south-west of England and the Kent coast. They were a mixed-traffic design, being equally adept at hauling passenger and freight trains, and were used on all types of services, frequently far below their capabilities. A total of 110 locomotives were constructed between 1945 and 1950, named after West Country resorts and Royal Air Force (RAF) and other subjects associated with the Battle of Britain. Due to problems with some of the new features, such as the Bulleid chain-driven valve gear, sixty locomotives were rebuilt by British Railways during the late 1950s.This produced a design highly similar to the rebuilt Merchant Navy class. The classes operated until July 1967, when the last steam locomotives on the Southern Region were withdrawn. Although most were scrapped, twenty locomotives found new homes on heritage railways in Britain. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_West_Country_and_Battle_of_Britain_classes