| "Hornby BR 6000 King Class 4-6-0 King William IV Era 5 Model Train" |
| "In the mid-1920s with train load sizes increasing to and from the South West the Great Western Railway were faced with the need for even more powerful locomotives capable of hauling the heavy expresses at an average speed of 60 mph The main routes were limited to a 20 ton axle weight though so a number of the Great Western's routes had to be upgraded including the strengthening of some bridges before the Great Western's General Manager Sir Felix Pole would give his Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles Collett permission to proceed with the design and construction of a Super-Castle The result was the King class 4-6-0 which emerged from Swindon works in June 1927 a design that increased the length and wheelbase over the Castle class necessary to accommodate the new WA designated boiler The driving and bogie wheels were reduced in size from that of the Castles and the boiler working pressure increased to 250lb with a larger diameter cylinder and a longer stroke The Great Western promoted the new Kings as the most powerful passenger locomotives in the country and at 29ft 5in and weighing 89 tons the class probably represented the limit of the 4-6-0 design Initially twenty locomotives were ordered the first six being built at Swindon in June and July 1927 followed by the remaining fourteen locomotives between February and July 1928 Please note box and model dimensions are shown as identical however only represent the boxpackage size"
Price: 151.49 |
| "Hornby BR K1 Class 2-6-0 62065 Era 5 Model Train" |
| "Inspired by Thompson&8217;s rebuilt Gresley K4 in which it was reclassified as a K11 the only locomotive in that particular Class A H Peppercorn took advantage of Thompson&8217;s retirement in 1946 to develop the design into the K1 Class The K1 Class which was made up of 70 locomotives were all built in Glasgow at the North British Locomotive Company&8217;s Park Works over a 10 month period between May 1949 and March 1950 As was the North British Locomotive Company&8217;s all of the Class were sent to Eastfield shed Glasgow for running in before being sent to England where they were used for both freight and express passenger workings&160; Thirty of the Class were sent to the Eastern Region while the remaining forty were dispatched to the North Eastern Region Many of the North Eastern K1s were often seen as far North as Edinburgh and early on in their working life were regularly used on the West Highland line A significant number of those allocated to the Eastern Region were based at March"
Price: 129.99 |
| "Hornby BR K1 Class 2-6-0 62006 Era 4 Model Train" |
| "Inspired by Thompson&8217;s rebuilt Gresley K4 in which it was reclassified as a K11 the only locomotive in that particular Class A H Peppercorn took advantage of Thompson&8217;s retirement in 1946 to develop the design into the K1 Class The K1 Class which was made up of 70 locomotives were all built in Glasgow at the North British Locomotive Company&8217;s Park Works over a 10 month period between May 1949 and March 1950 As was the North British Locomotive Company&8217;s all of the Class were sent to Eastfield shed Glasgow for running in before being sent to England where they were used for both freight and express passenger workings Thirty of the Class were sent to the Eastern Region while the remaining forty were dispatched to the North Eastern Region Many of the North Eastern K1s were often seen as far North as Edinburgh and early on in their working life were regularly used on the West Highland line A significant number of those allocated to the Eastern Region were based at March"
Price: 129.99 |
| "Hornby BR Adams Class 415 4-4-2T 30583 Era 5 Model Train" |
| "In 1882 to support the ever increasing London suburban traffic on the London South Western Railway William Adams the Locomotive Superintendent ordered 71 new Class 415 4-4-2T engines Developed from the earlier rebuilt LSWR 46 class the 415 Class locomotives were all constructed away from the LSWR workshops at Nine Elms which were at full capacity being built by R Stephenson Neilson &38; Co Beyer Peacock and D&252;bs &38; Co between 1882 and 1885"
Price: 117.49 |
| "Hornby LNER B17/2 Class 2-6-0 2842 'Kilverstone Hall' Era 3 Model Train" |
| "In 1926 with increased loading on the East Anglia passenger services and the introduction of modern vacuum-braked coaching stock there was a desperate need for a locomotive that could supplement the Holden B12 Class on the former Great Eastern routes of the London North Eastern Railway Track limitations prevented the transfer of locomotives from other regions and so Nigel Gresley was tasked by the LNER to produce a three cylinder 4-6-0 design using the cylinder and motion arrangement of the D49 but with a tractive effort of about 25000lb and a relatively light axle loading of 17 tons"
Price: 133.99 |
| "Hornby BR B17/4 Class 4-6-0 61619 Welbeck Abbey Era 4 Model Train" |
| "Locomotive 61619 Welbeck Abbey entered service on November 8 1930 having been built at Darlington in the first batch of B172 locomotives and was converted to a B176 in January 1953 whilst allocated to March Shed Renumbered under British Railways in August 1948 to 61619 Welbeck Abbey was withdrawn from service on September 19 1958"
Price: 133.99 |
| "Hornby SR, V 'Schools' Class 4-4-0 921 'Shrewsbury' Era 3 Model Train" |
| "The Schools Class 4-4-0 locomotives were designed by Richard Maunsell and were originally classified as Class V A total of 40 of these powerful express passenger steam locomotives were produced at Eastleigh Works and numbered 900 - 939 for Southern Railways Combining designs used in the Lord Nelson Class and weighing in at 110 tons the design of this Class represented the last usage of this type of 4-4-0 wheel arrangement in Great Britain"
Price: 133.99 |
| "Hornby BR 42xx Class 2-8-0T 4287 Era 4 Model Train" |
| "The Great Western Railway&8217;s large Class 42xx 52xx and 72xx tank engines were an evolution of a design first conceived in 1906 by George Jackson Churchward Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway between 1902 and 1922The 2-8-0 Class 42xx was the first of its type to be used in Britain and arose because of a need for a powerful freight locomotive capable of handling increasing heavy mineral loads especially in South Wales"
Price: 116.49 |
| "Hornby LNER D16/3 Class 4-4-0 8802 Era 3 Model Train" |
| "A popular and successful design of 4-4-0 tender engine the first of the Great Eastern Railway class S46 locomotives No1900 Claud Hamilton left Stratford Works in March 1900 and was at that point the largest express locomotive on the GER The design of the class is often credited to James Holden Superintendent of the GER at the time but he was out of the country during this period and it was actually Stratford Works&8217; Chief Draughtsman Frederick V Russell who was responsible for most of the design work"
Price: 117.99 |
| "Hornby BR B17/6 Class 4-6-0 61665 Leicester City Era 4 Model Train" |
| "In 1926 with increased loading on the East Anglia passenger services and the introduction of modern vacuum-braked coaching stock there was a desperate need for a locomotive that could supplement the Holden B12 Class on the former Great Eastern routes of the London North Eastern Railway Track limitations prevented the transfer of locomotives from other regions and so Nigel Gresley was tasked by the LNER to produce a three cylinder 4-6-0 design using the cylinder and motion arrangement of the D49 but with a tractive effort of about 25000lb and a relatively light axle loading of 17 tons"
Price: 133.99 |
| "Hornby SR N15 'King Arthur' Class 4-6-0 742 'Camelot' Era 3 Model Train" |
| "The N15 Class introduced in 1918 from a design by Robert Urie was also known as the King Arthur Class being named after people and places associated with the legend of King Arthur and the Round Table This class of two cylinder 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives proved to be one of the most successful during the post-grouping era of 1928-1948 with seventy four locomotives being built during this time"
Price: 145.99 |
| "Hornby LNER J15 Class 0-6-0 65477 Era 3 Model Train" |
| "Designed by TW Worsdell the GER Class Y14 (LNER Class J15) was his solution to the lack of suitable freight locomotives available on the Doncaster route The first Y14s were built in July 1883 and they became the Great Eastern Railway&8217;s most common locomotive type with a total of 259 being built in 27 batches The secret of their success was their simple design and in 1891 the Great Eastern Railway set the world record for erecting a steam locomotive No 930 being assembled at Stratford in just 9 hours and 45 minutes Hauling both freight and passenger stock and with a very low axle loading they could run virtually anywhere on the Great Eastern&8217;s network"
Price: 106.99 |
| "Hornby BR M7 Class 0-4-4T 30129 Era 5 Model Train" |
| "When Dugald Drummond succeeded William Adams as Locomotive Superintendent of the London and South Western Railway in 1895 his first all new class was the M7 0-4-4T Derived from previous 0-4-4T designs of his at the North British and Caledonian Railways construction commenced in 1897 and continued in batches until 1911 105 being built eventually"
Price: 129.49 |
| "Hornby GWR 6000 King Class 4-6-0 6023 King Edward II Era 3 Model Train" |
| "In the mid-1920s with train load sizes increasing to and from the South West the Great Western Railway were faced with the need for even more powerful locomotives capable of hauling the heavy expresses at an average speed of 60 mph The main routes were limited to a 20 ton axle weight though so a number of the Great Western&8217;s routes had to be upgraded including the strengthening of some bridges before the Great Western&8217;s General Manager Sir Felix Pole would give his Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles Collett permission to proceed with the design and construction of a Super-Castle"
Price: 153.99 |
| "Hornby LNER Q6 Class 0-8-0 2265 Era 3 Model Train" |
| "At the end of the first decade of the 20th century the upsurge in the growth of mineral traffic in the North-East exceeded the amount of steam haulage available to transport it The existing North Eastern Q5 locomotives designed by Wilson Worsdell were extremely capable engines but the new Chief Mechanical Officer Vincent Raven felt a more powerful superheated design would be justified in the circumstances"
Price: 133.99 |
| "Hornby BR Standard 4MT Class 4-6-0 75008 Era 5 Model Train" |
| "When the London Midland Scottish Railway came up with its initial standard designs in 1947 it was considered that there was no call for a mixed traffic Class 4 4-6-0 locomotive The duties for which the 4-6-0 design were suited to were amply covered by existing traction types and it wasn&8217;t until Nationalisation in 1948 that the Western Region of British Rail felt that this type of locomotive was required for use on its secondary route services"
Price: 141.99 |
| "Hornby BR Royal Scot Class 4-6-0, 46165 The Ranger Era 5 Model Train" |
| "By 1926 faced with a stock book of outdated and unsuitable mainline locomotive traction the London Midland Scottish Railway had an urgent need for &8220;provision of an improved and more powerful type of passenger engine for the purpose of avoiding double heading and duplication of certain heavy express passenger main line services&8221;"
Price: 141.99 |
| "Hornby BR Rebuilt Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2 35030 Elder Dempster Lines Era 5 Model Train" |
| "Conceived in 1937 when Oliver Bulleid became Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway the Merchant Navy Class represented Bulleid&8217;s vision for a quick accelerating mixed traffic 4-6-2 locomotive equally capable of hauling passenger services (such as the Golden Arrow and Atlantic Coast Expresses) or freight workings to a speed of around 75mphIn 1934 Bulleid had been opposed the use of streamlining but for the Merchant Navy&8217;s &8216;air-smoothed&8217; design it suited his purposes being easy to clean mechanically and hiding the boiler&8217;s external pipes which in turn meant they could be run for function rather than aesthetics"
Price: 140.99 |
| "Hornby BR Castle Class 4-6-0 5013 Abergavenny Castle Era 5 Model Train" |
| "By the time Charles Collett took over from George Churchward as Chief Mechanical Officer of the Great Western Railway at Swindon in 1921 holiday traffic from London to Devon and Cornwall was demanding heavier trains and the GWR management were devoting proportionally more money and resources to West of England services from Paddington than to any other routes Collett's solution was to take the basic 4-6-0 layout of the existing Star Class keeping the same frame layout and wheel spacing and adding a newly designed No8 boiler which was both larger and lighterThe result was the GWR Class 4073 or &8216;Castle&8217; Class with which Collett could both supplement the Stars and replace them on the heaviest expresses"
Price: 140.99 |
| "Hornby LNER J36 Class 0-6-0 722 Era 3 Model Kit" |
| "In 1887 Matthew Holmes Locomotive Superintendent of the North British Railway decided to stop building goods locomotives with 17&8221; cylinders and replace them with a larger class than the previous Drummonds Utilising the same wheelbase and firebox as the Drummond 17&8221; but with a new standard boiler the first six NBR Class C locomotives were introduced in 1888 and such was their success that by 1900 168 locomotives had been built"
Price: 116.99 |
| "Hornby BR Patriot Class 4-6-0 45534 E. Tootal Broadhurst Era 4 Model Train" |
| "Based on the chassis of the Royal Scot class with the boiler from the large Claughton class the &8216;Patriot&8217; class of locomotives was the London Midland and Scottish Railway&8217;s approach to building a &8216;Second Division&8217; 5X designation locomotive at the beginning of the 1930s a role that would later be mainly fulfilled by the Jubilee classIn October 1930 the Locomotive Committee of the LMS gave the go-ahead to Sir Henry Fowler for the rebuilding of two Claughton locomotives Nos5971 and 5902 into a new class by utilising new frames spare tenders and an existing type of boiler"
Price: 140.99 |
| "Hornby BR Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0 30863 Lord Rodney Era 4 Model Train" |
| "In order to cope with the steadily increasing weight of express passenger traffic on the Southern Railway in the early years of Grouping Richard Maunsell the Chief Mechanical Officer needed a locomotive that was more powerful than the King Arthur class but one that would still conform to the various gauging and weight issues within the region and still be capable of hauling 500 ton trains at a speed of 55mphThe new Lord Nelson design had to fit within the profile of the King Arthur class and having previously used a Drummond four cylinder locomotive as a test bed Maunsell altered the positions of the cranks on the Lord Nelson design to give eight exhaust pulses per revolution rather than four"
Price: 141.49 |
| "Hornby LMS Princess Coronation Class 4-6-2 6244 King George VI Era 3 Model Train" |
| "The original streamlined shape of the Coronation class arose from tests conducted by the LMS Research Department on Sir William Stanier&8217;s previous development of the Princess Royal class locomotives Stanier was said to be ambivalent about the economic value of streamlining but was aware of the publicity value that such a design would generate"
Price: 157.49 |
| "Hornby Caledonian Sleeper Class 92 Co-Co 92023 Era 10 Model Train" |
| "Built in June 1995 92023 entered service named as Ravel; one of the nine SNCF owned locomotives In May 2014 Serco using traction supplied by GBRf won the franchise to operate the Caledonian Sleeper services and along with 9201014183338 92023 was prepared in Caledonian Sleeper"
Price: 72.99 |
| "Hornby Network Rail Class 31 A1A-A1A 31602 Driver Dave Green Era 9 Model Train" |
| "Entering traffic on 12 May 1960 as D5614 in April 1998 it was withdrawn for modification to Class 316 and renumbered 31602 The locomotive re-entered traffic with Fragonset as Chimera then Network Rail and was named as Driver Dave Green at Derby RTC in November 2007 marking 52 years of railway service by the driver"
Price: 145.49 |
| "Hornby BR Class 71 Bo-Bo E5001 Era 11 Model Train" |
| "The early 1950s were a time of great plans and modern ideas not least where the railways were concerned but still recovering from the financial effects of the Second World War many of these plans had to be implemented in a measured way Electric traction was seen by the newly nationalised British Rail to be the answer and so attention was focused on new routes in the Southern Region where third rail electrification had been in place since 1923 Much of BR&8217;s Southern Region passenger traffic could be accommodated by the use of EMUs but to cover the motive power requirement for 900 ton freight services as well as the Night Ferry and Golden Arrow workings a new electric locomotive was required"
Price: 141.49 |
| "Hornby BR Class 71 Bo-Bo 71012 Era 7 Model Train" |
| "The early 1950s were a time of great plans and modern ideas not least where the railways were concerned but still recovering from the financial effects of the Second World War many of these plans had to be implemented in a measured way Electric traction was seen by the newly nationalised British Rail to be the answer and so attention was focused on new routes in the Southern Region where third rail electrification had been in place since 1923 Much of BR&8217;s Southern Region passenger traffic could be accommodated by the use of EMUs but to cover the motive power requirement for 900 ton freight services as well as the Night Ferry and Golden Arrow workings a new electric locomotive was required"
Price: 141.49 |
| "Hornby BR Class 71 Bo-Bo E5005 Era 6 Model Train" |
| "The early 1950s were a time of great plans and modern ideas not least where the railways were concerned but still recovering from the financial effects of the Second World War many of these plans had to be implemented in a measured way Electric traction was seen by the newly nationalised British Rail to be the answer and so attention was focused on new routes in the Southern Region where third rail electrification had been in place since 1923 Much of BR&8217;s Southern Region passenger traffic could be accommodated by the use of EMUs but to cover the motive power requirement for 900 ton freight services as well as the Night Ferry and Golden Arrow workings a new electric locomotive was required"
Price: 141.49 |
| "Hornby DB Schenker Class 67 Bo-Bo 67013 Era 10 Model Train" |
| "A total of thirty Class 67 locomotives were built between 1999 and 2000 by Alstom in Spain for English Welsh &38; Scottish Railway (EWS) These Bo-Bo configured diesel electric locomotives have a large fuel capacity electro-pneumatic brakes and a top speed of 125mph (200kmh) The bodyshell is a monocoque load bearing Alstom design whilst the bogies also designed by Alstom are of an H frame design"
Price: 133.99 |
| "Hornby East Midlands Class 153 153379 Era 10 Model Train" |
| "The origins of the Class 153 date back to 1990 when British Rail needed replacements for its ageing fleet of Class 121 and 122 &8220;Bubble Car&8221; diesel railcars for use on the quiet Cornish Welsh North-Western Norfolk and Lincolnshire branch lines as well as augmenting rural two car units"
Price: 93.49 |
