| "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| "By 1926 faced with a stock book of outdated and unsuitable mainline locomotive traction the London Midland Scottish Railway had an urgent need for &8220;provision of an improved and more powerful type of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: 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| "By 1926 faced with a stock book of outdated and unsuitable mainline locomotive traction the London Midland Scottish Railway had an urgent need for &8220;provision of an improved and more powerful type of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 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: 124.99  |
| "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: 140.99  |
| "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: 140.99  |
| "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: 0.00  |
| "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: 108.49  |
| "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 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: 157.49  |
| "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: 68.99  |
| "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: 72.99  |
| "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: 72.49  |
| "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: 92.99  |
| "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 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: 108.49  |
| "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 E5022 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 BR Railfreight Class 56 Co-Co 56108 Era 8 Model Train" |
| "The British Rail Class 56 Type 5 Co-Co diesel locomotive was first introduced in 1976 to cope with the increased requirement for heavy freight British Rail awarded the contract to design and build these new engines to Brush Traction in Loughborough who subsequently sub-contracted the construction to Electroputere in Romania due to the lack of capacity in their own works"
Price: 141.99  |
| "Hornby BR Class 71 Bo-Bo E5018 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 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  |
| "Hornby Barrington Light Railway Sentinel 4wDH No. 19 Era 8 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: 59.49  |
| "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: 59.49  |
| "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: 141.49  |
