| "Hornby BR S15 Class 4-6-0 30831 Era 4 Model Train" |
| "The third of Robert Urie's 4-6-0 designs for the LSWR and similar in appearance to the N15 class the S15 shared many of its two predecessor&8217;s components such as in the boiler cylinder valve gear and tender designs The only major difference in design for the S15 came in the smaller diameter of the driving wheels this gave better traction which was essential for the S15&8217;s anticipated heavy freight workings to the south coast ports By May 1921 sixteen engines had entered service mostly in the London area but the 1923 Grouping of Railway Companies coincided with Urie&8217;s retirement and further orders of the S15 were delayed as the new CME Richard Maunsell sought to improve the design establishing trials to analyse watercoal consumption of the engines along with their ability to run to a precise schedule"
Price: 119.49 |
| "Hornby BR J15 Class 0-6-0 65464 Era 5 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 following the opening of the GN&38;GE joint line The first Y14s were built in July 1883 and they would go on to become the most numerous of the Great Eastern Railway&8217;s locomotive types with a total of 259 being built in 27 batches One of the reasons for the type&8217;s 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 beating the previous record set at Crewe"
Price: 98.99 |
| "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: 120.49 |
| "Hornby SR Adams Class 415 4-4-2T 3125 Era 3 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: 108.99 |
| "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: 108.99 |
| "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: 123.99 |
| "Hornby BR B1 Class 4-6-0, 61032 'Stembok' Era 4 Model Train" |
| "The LNER 4-6-0 Class B was Edward Thompson&8217;s standardised two cylinder mixed traffic answer to the GWR&8217;s Hall Class and the LMS Stanier Black Five designed at a time of even greater austerity for the company With Nigel Gresley&8217;s sudden death on April 5 1941 Thompson was promoted to post of Chief Mechanical Engineer and immediately set about standardising locomotive design a programme that has divided opinion amongst enthusiasts ever since The Class B design satisfied the LNER&8217;s (and the nation&8217;s) wartime requirement for a cheap easy to maintain locomotive and by the time that the first locomotive 8301 Springbok entered service the class had been re-designated as B1"
Price: 135.49 |
| "Hornby BR N15 'King Arthur' Class 4-6-0, 30792 'Sir Hervis de Revel' Era 4 Model Train" |
| "Following the successful introduction of the two-cylinder Saint class 4-6-0 locomotives in 1902 the Great Western Railway&8217;s Chief Mechanical Engineer George Jackson Churchward became interested in developing a more powerful four cylinder type for the longer non-stop express services especially with the proposed increase in train weights and speed schedules that were part of the GWR&8217;s plans for the end of the decade"
Price: 123.99 |
| "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: 123.99 |
| "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: 107.99 |
| "Hornby LNER A4 Class, 4-6-2 60026 Miles Beevor Era 3 Model Train" |
| "Probably the most iconic Pacific Express design of locomotive in Great Britain the LNER Gresley A4 with its streamlined casing was a classic symbol of the attitude towards speed and design in the 1930s The 1930s saw increased competition to the railways from road and air travel and the LNER Board knew that they had to make travel between the major cities faster more comfortable and more reliable High speed diesel services were starting to make an impact abroad in May 1933 the German State Railways diesel-electric Fliegende Hamburger entered service running for extended periods at 85mph and by 1934 in the USA Burlington Zephyr had reached 1125mph during a longer 1015 mile journey"
Price: 134.49 |
| "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: 123.99 |
| "Hornby BR B12 Class 4-6-0 61576 Era 4 Model Train" |
| "The restrictions on locomotive weight and length were keenly felt by the Great Eastern Railway and whilst James Holden&8217;s S46 D56 and H88 Claud Hamilton 4-4-0 designs were not unduly restricted when he came to consider a 4-6-0 design for high performance express work the inside cylinder was his only real option To gain power Holden was quick to embrace the idea of superheating and so in 1911 the first order was placed for his S69 class locomotive"
Price: 123.99 |
| "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: 131.49 |
| "Hornby LMS 8F Class 2-8-0 48035 Era 3 Model Train" |
| "In 1932 when William Stanier became the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London Midland Scottish most of the region&8217;s freight traffic was being hauled by ageing 0-8-0 engines many of which dated from the pre-grouping period By 1934 freight traffic accounted for 58 of the LMS&8217;s turnover and the only modern stock available for haulage were Beyer-Garrett and &8216;Austin Seven&8217; Class 7F locomotives These locomotives had serious maintenance issues as well as proving inadequate for the gradual acceleration of freight traffic as decreed by the Operating Department and so Stanier looked to the Great Western Railway for design inspiration for his new freight locomotive"
Price: 115.99 |
| "Hornby LMS Patriot Class 4-6-0 5521 Rhyl Era 3 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: 130.99 |
| "Hornby LMS Class 5MT 4-6-0 5089 Era 3 Model Train" |
| "If ever a locomotive deserves the description of &8216;ubiquitous&8217; it the London Midland and Scottish Railway&8217;s mixed traffic medium powered Class 5 locomotives designed by Sir William Stanier and universally referred to as &8216;Black Fives&8217; Stanier who had previously been the Works Manager at the GWR Works at Swindon realised that there was a need for larger locomotives with greater pulling power on the LMS and using his experience gained at Swindon took inspiration from the GWR Hall Class locomotives Initially twenty were ordered from the Crewe Works and a further eighty from the Vulcan Foundry with the numbering starting from 5000"
Price: 130.99 |
| "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: 130.99 |
| "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: 130.99 |
| "Hornby BR H Class 0-4-4T 31265 Era 4 Model Train" |
| "Built at Ashford works in May 1905 the locomotive entered traffic as SE&38;CR 265 and was equipped with an early type rod and pulley motor fitting for PushPull working between late 1912 and early 1914"
Price: 102.99 |
| "Hornby John Dewar & Sons R&H 48DS 0-4-0 No. 458957 Era 8 Model Train" |
| "R&38;H No 458957 left Boultham Works on 6 July 1961 being one of the final ten 48DS locomotives built and was purchased by John Dewar &38; Sons for use at their Inveralmond distillery until its closure in 1994 The locomotive was saved for preservation and is currently operating at the Bridge of Dun station on the Caledonian Railway as 'Dewar Highlander'"
Price: 63.99 |
| "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: 68.99 |
| "Hornby BR Railfreight Class 60 Co-Co 60015 Bow Fell Era 8 Model Train" |
| "60015 Bow Fell was the last of the class to be accepted into service by British Rail entering traffic on 24 March 1993 being allocated to the Railfreight Construction sub-sector at Immingham When Transrail was launched on 29 August 1994 at Arpley Yard it was 60015 that was selected to unveil the new Transrail livery"
Price: 138.49 |
| "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: 134.49 |
| "Hornby BR Provincial Class 156 Set 156401 DMS No. 57401 and DMSL No. 52401 Era 8 Model Train" |
| "Two-car set 156401 comprising DMS No 57401 and DMSL No 52401 was the first of the class to enter service being built in November 1987 and sent to the RTC at Derby in December for type testing and evaluation The unit entered revenue earning service at Norwich Crown Point working East Anglia to North West express services"
Price: 97.49 |
| "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: 86.99 |
| "Hornby Oxfordshire Ironstone Company Sentinel 0-4-0 Graham Era 11 Model Train" |
| "Founded as Ally &38; MacLellan Glasgow in 1875 and then later known as the Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd the company went through various place and name changes until in 1957 Sentinel (Shrewsbury) Ltd was obtained by Rolls-Royce At that time Sentinel were producing steam locomotives and lorries but the manufacturing of these vehicles ceased in 1958"
Price: 55.49 |
| "Hornby Virgin Trains Class 87 Bo-Bo 87019 Sir Winston Churchill Era 9 Model Train" |
| "The Class 87 locomotive design resulted from a requirement for a more powerful mixed traffic electrical locomotive by British Rail needed to cope with the route gradients of the West Coast Main Line between Weaver Junction and Glasgow Electrification had been newly authorised over this section in 1970 and was scheduled for completion by May 1974 leaving little time to design a completely new locomotive from scratch and so British Rail decided to base the new class on the existing Class 86 locomotivesThe British Railways Board placed an order for thirty four locomotives later to be increased to thirty six with British Rail Engineering Ltd at Crewe GEC Traction providing the electrical equipment"
Price: 130.99 |
| "Hornby Beggs Tooling Class 264 Pug 0-4-0ST 854 Era 2/3 Model Train" |
| "&8216;The Celtic Yardie&8217; these small 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives were built in Scotland during the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras and were mainly used as shunting engines in railway works yards around Glasgow Some locomotives lasted until 1962 well into British Railways&8217; service with a number being sold on to private industrial companies for use on factory railway sidings"
Price: 26.99 |
| "Hornby EWS Class 47/7 Co-Co 47798 Prince William Era 9 Model Train" |
| "Class 477 locomotives are a modification of Class 474 locomotives being fitted with long range fuel tanks and new cabling to work with Propelling Control Vehicles (PCV) on mail carrying services Two locomotives 47798 Prince William and 47799 Prince Henry were dedicated for use on the Royal Train from May 1995 and were designated as Class 477c before being replaced by Class 67 locomotives in 2004 and withdrawn into preservation"
Price: 63.99 |
| "Hornby EWS Class 47/7 Co-Co 47799 Prince Henry Era 9 Model Train" |
| "Class 477 locomotives are a modification of Class 474 locomotives being fitted with long range fuel tanks and new cabling to work with Propelling Control Vehicles (PCV) on mail carrying services Two locomotives 47798 Prince William and 47799 Prince Henry were dedicated for use on the Royal Train from May 1995 and were designated as Class 477c before being replaced by Class 67 locomotives in 2004 and withdrawn into preservation"
Price: 63.99 |
