Steam Locos

Young or old, keen modeller or just a beginner, the Hornby RailRoad range answers the needs of many and is a perfect complement to the variety of locomotives, rolling stock, track, buildings, and accessories that can be found in the current Hornby catalogue. Devoid of easily damaged detail parts the suitably livered RailRoad locomotives are fitted with efficient drive mechanisms and have pickups o…

Dimensions: 293mm DCC Ready: DCC Ready Livery: LNER Finish: Pristine Special Features Loco drive

Finish: Pristine DCC Type: DCC Ready Livery: BR (Early) Class: Schools Designer: R. Maunsell Entered Service: 1930 Detail: Extensive Cab Detail Motor: 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive Purpose: Express Passenger Wheel Configuration: 4-4-0 Dimensions: 238mm 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 ex…

Length: 218mm DCC Type: DCC Ready Livery: Early BR Class: J15 Designer: T.W. Worsdell Entered Service: 1883 Detail: Removable Coal Load and Diecast Boiler Motor: 5 pole & twin flywheel Purpose: Mixed Traffic Wheel Configuration: 0-6-0 Special Features: NEM Couplings, Sprung Buffers Suitable rolling stock: BR rolling stock of the period. Colour and contents of products may vary from those illustrat…

DCC Type: DCC Ready Livery: SR Limited Edition: Yes Limited Edition Size: 1,000 Class: Drummond Class 700 Period: 1940s Wheel Configuration: 0-6-0 In late May, early June 1940 a miracle occurred at Dunkirk, a town situated on the coast of Northern France when over 300,000 British and Allied service personnel were snatched from the beaches by an armada of ships of all different shapes and sizes. On…

Length: 216mm DCC Type: DCC Ready Livery: Early BR, Weathered Class: D16/3Designer: James Holden/Sir Nigel Gresley Entered Service: 1933 Detail: Diecast body and Removable Coal Load Motor: 3 Pole with Flywheel Purpose: Passenger Wheel Configuration: 4-4-0 Special Features: Cab detail, Sprung Buffers The Class D16/3 locomotives were derivatives of a prototype locomotive which was numbered 1900 afte…

Length: 276mm DCC Type: DCC Ready Livery: Late BR Class: 6000 Designer: C. B. Collett Entered Service: 1928 Motor: 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive Purpose: Express Passenger Wheel Configuration: 4-6-0 Special Features: Brass axle bearings, Cab detail, NEM Couplings, Sprung Buffers, Tender Detail Suitable rolling stock: R4644, R4642 Safety Notice Not suitable for children under the age of 14. Please…

Hornby engineers have developed a unique sound decoder that not only provides superior DCC control but also dedicated sounds associated with the locomotives that have been installed with this new sound decoder - TTS Twin Track Sound. Sound Funtions Headlight/Rear-Light Background/Exhaust/Coasting Steam Chime Whistle Long Chime Whistle Short x 2 Doors Slamming Shut Wheel Slip Safety Valve Injector…

Gauge 00 DCC Type DCC Ready Livery BR (Lined Black) Limited Edition Yes Limited Edition Size 1,000 Designer William Adams Entered Service 1882 Wheel Configuration 4-4-2T Situated on the border between Dorset and Devon, the 6¾ mile Lyme Regis Branch line connected the coastal town of Lyme Regis, in Dorset, with the London-Exeter main line at Axminster, in Devon. Running through wonderful countrysid…

DCC Type DCC Ready Livery Late BR Class B12 Designer S. D. Holden Purpose Express Passenger Wheel Configuration 4-6-0 The restrictions on locomotive weight and length were keenly felt by the Great Eastern Railway and whilst James Holden’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 c…

Gauge 00 DCC Type DCC Ready Livery/owner LNER Limited Edition Yes Limited Edition Size 500 Class A3 Age Suitability 14+ Wheel Configuration 4-6-2 Special Features NEM Couplings Minister of Transport, Eric Campbell Geddes’ Railways Act of 1921, enacted at the start of 1923, created the ‘Big Four’ regional rail companies of the Great Western Railway, the London Midland Scottish Railway, the London N…

Gauge 00 Length 253mm DCC Type DCC Ready Operator/Livery GWR, Plain Green Class Grange Designer Charles Collett Entered Service 1930s Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive Wheel Configuration 4-6-0 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 p…

WORLD STEAM RECORD ANNIVERSARY PACK LIMITED EDITION OF 1,260 MODELS • 18 carat Gold plating on the running gear and other metal parts • Wooden plinth (340mm x 50mm x 25mm) with 18 carat Gold plated rails • Reproduction World Speed Record plaque In 1937, the rivalry between the East Coast and West Coast rail routes to Scotland had reached an intensity not seen since the events of the 1895 ‘Race to…

Gauge 00 Length 256mm DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 3 (1923 - 1947) Operator/Livery LMS, LMS Lined Black Designer Sir William Stanier Entered Service 1935 Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive If ever a locomotive deserves the description of �ubiquitous� it the London, Midland and Scottish Railway�s mixed traffic, medium powered Class 5 locomoti…

Gauge 00 DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 3 (1923 - 1947) Operator/Livery Early L&NER, Lined Black Designer Matthew Holmes Entered Service 1899 Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive Wheel Configuration 0-6-0 In 1887, Matthew Holmes, Locomotive Superintendent of the North British Railway, decided to stop building goods locomotives with 17� cylinders…

DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 4 (1948 - 1956) Operator/Livery Early BR, Plain Black Designer Matthew Holmes Entered Service 1891 Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive Wheel Configuration 0-6-0 In 1887, Matthew Holmes, Locomotive Superintendent of the North British Railway, decided to stop building goods locomotives with 17” cylinders and replace…

Deatailed OO Scale Steam Locomotive Gauge 00 Length 132mm DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 4 (1948 - 1956) Operator/Livery Early BR, Lined Black Class H Designer Harry Wainwright Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive Wheel Configuration 0-4-4 Built at Ashford works in May 1905, the locomotive entered traffic as SE&CR 265 and was equipped with an ea…

Detailed 1:76 Scale OO Gauge Locomotive Conceived in 1937 when Oliver Bulleid became Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway, the Merchant Navy Class represented Bulleid'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 75mph. M…

DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 3 (1923 - 1947) Operator/Livery SR, Lined Green Designer Richard Maunsell Entered Service 1928 Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive 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…

DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 4 (1948 - 1956) Operator/Livery Early BR, Lined Green Designer Richard Maunsell Entered Service 1929 Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive 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 O…

Gauge 00 DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 3 (1923 - 1947) Operator/Livery LMS, Crimson Lake Designer Sir William Stanier Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive The original streamlined shape of the Coronation class arose from tests conducted by the LMS Research Department on Sir William Stanier’s previous development of the Princess Royal class loco…

The Peckett W Class was a classic, late Victorian, four-coupled, medium range, industrial saddletank that comprised six separate variations, from the W2 of 1884 to the W7 of 1938. Locomotives were built at the Atlas Engine Works in St. George, Bristol, Peckett & Sons Ltd having taken over the business established there by Fox, Walker & Company in 1880. Peckett Works No.882/1902 Niclausse was built…

35029 Ellerman Lines entered traffic on 19 February, 1949 at Bournemouth and was named during a ceremony at Southampton Docks on 1 March, 1951. The Chairman of the company, Mr A.F Hull, officially named the locomotive. Allocated to Dover in October 1949, Ellerman Lines was selected to haul the Danish Royal train from Dover Marine to London Victoria for the State visit of King Frederik IX and Queen…

Gauge 00 Length 243mm DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 9 (1996 - 2018) Operator/Livery Virgin Trains, Virgin Red & Blue Designer British Railways Entered Service 1974 Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive Wheel Configuration Bo-Bo The Class 87 locomotive design resulted from a requirement for a more powerful mixed traffic electrical locomotive by B…