| "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 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: 106.99  |
| "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 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: 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 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: 129.99  |
| "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 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 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 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 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 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: 104.99  |
| "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 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 Loadhaul Class 60 Co-Co 60070 John Loundon McAdam Era 9 Model Train" |
| "60070 John Loudon McAdam was built at Brush Traction's works in October 1991 and named on October 28 1991 Along with 60050 and 60064 60070 John Loudon McAdam was one of only three locomotives to carry the Loadhaul branding over the existing Railfreight triple grey livery rather than the more familiar black with yellow ends"
Price: 149.49  |
| "Hornby GBRf Class 59 Co-Co 59003 Era 10 Model Train" |
| "Resulting from an order for four locomotives by Yeoman Aggregates the Class 59 locomotives were built and introduced over a ten year period from 1985 In 1997 one of the Foster Yeoman locomotives 59003 Yeoman Highlander was exported to Germany to haul stone trains and in 2001 was sold to Heavy Haul Power International then purchased by GB Railfreight in August 2014 It returned to Great Britain in October 2014 for recommissioning into GBRf service"
Price: 72.99  |
| "Hornby BR Class 90 Bo-Bo 90135 Era 8 Model Train" |
| "Developed from the Class 87 the Class 90 locomotives were manufactured and assembled at Crewe Works by BREL from 1985 until their completion in 1990 Designed as a replacement for locomotives from the Class 81 through to the Class 85 the Class 90 entered service as a mixed traffic locomotive working both freight and passenger trains"
Price: 77.49  |
| "Hornby BR Period II 68' Dining/Restaurant Car M236M Era 4 Model Train" |
| "Length285mmPeriodEra 4 (1948 - 1956)OperatorLiveryBR Crimson &38; CreamDesignerSir Ernest LemonAge Suitability14"
Price: 41.49  |
| "Hornby BR Period III Corridor First M1047M Era 4 Model Train" |
| "Length242mmPeriodEra 4 (1948 - 1956)OperatorLiveryBR Crimson &38; CreamDesignerSir William StanierAge Suitability14"
Price: 41.49  |
| "Hornby BR Period III Corridor First M2139M Era 4 Model Train" |
| "Length242mmPeriodEra 4 (1948 - 1956)OperatorLiveryBR Crimson &38; CreamDesignerSir William StanierAge Suitability14"
Price: 41.49  |
| "Hornby GWR Collett 'Bow Ended' Corridor Brake Third (R/H) 4941 Era 3 Model Train" |
| "Length242mmPeriodEra 3 (1923 - 1947)OperatorLiveryGWR Chocolate &38; CreamDesignerCharles CollettAge Suitability14"
Price: 39.99  |
| "Hornby GWR Collett 'Bow Ended' Corridor Composite (L/H) 6528 Era 3 Model Train" |
| "Length242mmPeriodEra 3 (1923 - 1947)OperatorLiveryGWR Chocolate &38; CreamDesignerCharles CollettAge Suitability14"
Price: 39.99  |
| "Hornby GWR Collett 'Bow Ended' Corridor Composite (R/H) 6527 Era 3 Model Train" |
| "Length242mmPeriodEra 3 (1923 - 1947)OperatorLiveryGWR Chocolate &38; CreamDesignerCharles CollettAge Suitability14"
Price: 39.99  |
| "Hornby BR 57' Stanier Non-Corridor Composite M16587M Era 5 Model Train" |
| "Length242mmPeriodEra 4 (1948 - 1956)OperatorLiveryBR MaroonDesignerSir William StanierAge Suitability14"
Price: 41.49  |
