I do find it amusing that the troublesome trio of BoBo pilot scheme locos that Heljan have offered, all have such good models. The NBL type 1 and EE type 2 'Baby Deltic' are really fine,
and the EE type 2 may well be the most powerful loco on the layout when it comes to haulage! (All so unlike reality, and then Bachmann have the rattlecan Cravens DMU and Hornby
the 'concrete mixer' Thompson L1 2-6-4T, each notorious in its own way on KX suburban, but very good models all around. Dapol have yet to join the party with their long promised
NBL DE type 2 now running close to ten years since announcement. The prototype was designed, constructed, commissioned into service and banished from KX in half the time...)
Never having had a Dapol diesel model to really look at, I wonder what the NEM pocket positioning is like on their product? Unless Dapol include a good screwlink coupler representation
that is usable I will probably filch a couple from the Heljan type 1s and use these, as this loco is for (brief use on) inner suburban traffic only.