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| "Hornby BR J50 Class 0-6-0T No. 14 Era 5 Model Train" |
| "The Gresley designed J5O Class eventually comprised 102 locomotives with design variations such as brakes driving positions boilers and bunker sizes resulting in four class parts Serving across the LNER from East field in Scotland to Cambridge where there was hard work to be done a J5O was invariably on hand to do it Built new in 1922 and 1924 twenty locomotives of the LNER J5O Class utilized a stock of second hand standard 4' 5 boilers becoming J502 and by 1926 had become the company's Group Standard type Fifty two more locomotives were built thirty eight at Don caster Works as J503 and fourteen at Gorton as J504 between 1926 and 1939 The thirty GNR J23 locomotives from 1914-1919 were eventually re-classified by the LNER as J5O 1sIn 1946 the class received their LNER re-numbering from 8890 to 8991 all surviving to Nationalization to receive their British Rail numbering in the 60000 range Withdrawals started in September 1958 and was completed by 1963 with six being transferred to Departmental use afterwards These locomotives survived until around May 1965 No 68961 Departmental No14 being the last to go in September 1965 Please note box and model dimensions are shown as identical however only represent the boxpackage size"
Price: 73.99 |
| "Hornby BR J50 Class 0-6-0T Era 4 Model Train" |
| "The Gresley designed J50 Class eventually comprised 102 locomotives with design variations such as brakes driving positions boilers and bunker sizes resulting in four class parts Serving across the LNER from East field in Scotland to Cambridge where there was hard work to be done a J50 was invariably on hand to do it Built new in 1922 and 1924 twenty locomotives of the LNER J50 Class utilized a stock of second hand standard 4' 5 boilers becoming J502 and by 1926 had become the company's Group Standard type Fifty two more locomotives were built thirty eight at Don caster Works as J503 and fourteen at Gorton as J504 between 1926 and 1939 The thirty GNR J23 locomotives from 1914-1919 were eventually re-classified by the LNER as J50 1s In 1946 the class received their LNER re-numbering from 8890 to 8991 all surviving to Nationalization to receive their British Rail numbering in the 60000 range Withdrawals started in September 1958 and was completed by 1963 with six being transferred to Departmental use afterwards These locomotives survived until around May 1965 No 68961 Departmental No14 being the last to go in September 1965 Please note box and model dimensions are shown as identical however only represent the boxpackage size"
Price: 73.99 |
| "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 LNER J15 Class 0-6-0 5444 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 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 J15 Class 0-6-0 65477 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 131.49 |
| "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 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: 55.49 |
| "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: 55.49 |
| "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 |
