| "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: 108.99 |
| "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 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: 123.99 |
| "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: 135.49 |
| "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: 98.99 |
| "Hornby BR J15 Class 0-6-0 65469 Era 4 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"
Price: 98.99 |
| "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: 119.99 |
| "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: 142.99 |
| "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: 123.99 |
| "Hornby BR Q6 Class 0-8-0 63427 Era 4 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 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: 131.49 |
| "Hornby BR Standard 4MT Class 4-6-0 75053 Era 4 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: 131.49 |
| "Hornby GWR 6800 Grange Class 4-6-0 6860 Aberporth Grange Era 3 Model Train" |
| "The idea for a new class of two cylinder 4-6-0 mixed traffic locomotive on the Great Western Railway came from George Churchward Chief Mechanical Officer at the time in the years preceding the First World War His proposal envisaged combining the standard Swindon No1 boiler with driving wheels of 5&8217; 8&8221; to deliver a combination of good pulling power and good acceleration vital in the design of an efficient mixed traffic locomotive For any number of reasons and despite his other proposals all coming to fruition the design was not pursued and it was to be the 1930s before the idea was revived"
Price: 120.49 |
| "Hornby LMS Royal Scot Class 4-6-0 46126 Royal Army Service Corps Era 3 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; In October 1926 following a degree of procrastination by the management of the LMS the loan of Great Western Castle class No5000 Launceston Castle spurred the LMS into action and in December an order for fifty &8216;improved&8217; 4-6-0 tender engines from North British was placed; the result being the iconic &8216;Royal Scot&8217; class of locomotive"
Price: 131.49 |
| "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 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: 108.49 |
| "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: 100.99 |
| "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: 130.49 |
| "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: 130.99 |
| "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: 145.99 |
| "Hornby LMS Princess Coronation Class 4-6-2 6229 Duchess of Hamilton Era 3 Model Train" |
| "Built at Crewe in 1938 as the last of the streamlined 'Coronations' Duchess of Hamilton entered service on September 10th At the same time the LMSR had accepted an invitation from the organisers of the World's Fair in New York to send a streamlined train out to the exposition and as the newest of the 'Coronations' 6229 was selected the name and numbers being swapped between 6229 Duchess of Hamilton and 6220 Coronation"
Price: 145.99 |
| "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: 67.49 |
| "Hornby GBRf Europorte Class 92 Co-Co 92043 Debussy Era 11 Model Train" |
| "Built in March 1996 92043 entered service named as Debussy being one of the nine SNCF owned locomotives Under-utilised the locomotive was sold to Europorte and retained its two tone grey livery until the end of 2016 when it received the new &8216;GB Railfreight part of Europorte&8217; livery of blue with mustard yellow cabs"
Price: 67.49 |
| "Hornby DB Cargo Romania Class 92 Co-Co 91 53 0 472 001-3 Mihai Eminescu Era 10 Model Train" |
| "92012 entered service named as Thomas Hardy one of Railfreight Distribution's locomotives Passing through EWS ownership to DB Schenker 92012 was transferred to DB Cargo Romania in DB Cherry Red livery renumbered to 91 53 0 472 001-3 Mihai Eminescu yet retaining the Channel Tunnel roundels and BR arrow logo"
Price: 85.99 |
