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…

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…

Item Length - Without Packaging (cm) 36.3 Item Scale 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge DCC Ready 8 pin socket Operator LNER Designer James Holden Wheel Configuration 4-4-0 Livery Black Minimum Curve (mm)  Radius 2 Class D16/3 Class The locomotive exchanges of 1948, initiated by the fledgling British Railways, had far reaching consequences for the future locomotive stock of the industry, not least in the constru…

Item Length - Without Packaging (cm) 36.3 Item Scale 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge DCC Ready 8 pin socket Operator SR Designer Robert Urie Wheel Configuration 4-6-0 Livery Sunshine Minimum Curve (mm) Radius 2 Motor 5 Pole Skew wound Class N15 King Arthur Class 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 associat…

Gauge 00 Length 276mm DCC Type DCC Ready Operator/Livery Great Western, Lined Green Class King Designer Charles Collett Entered Service 1930s Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive Wheel Configuration 4-6-0 Special Features NEM Couplings 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 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…

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 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…

Gauge 00 DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 3 (1923 - 1947) Operator/Livery LMS Crimson Lake Designer Sir William Stanier Entered Service 1937 Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound. Loco Drive 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 invi…

Gauge 00 Length 84mm DCC Type DCC Ready Operator/Livery PLA Royal Blue Class W4 Designer Peckett Entered Service 1890 Minimum Curve 1st Radius + (371mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound Purpose Industrial Wheel Configuration 0-4-0ST The Peckett W Class was a classic, late Victorian, four-coupled, medium range, industrial saddletank that comprised six separate variations, from the W2 of…

Gauge 00 Length 301mm DCC Type DCC Ready Period Era 3 (1923 - 1947) Operator/Livery LMS Lined Black Class Princess Coronation Designer Sir William Stanier Entered Service 1940 Minimum Curve 2nd Radius + (438mm) Age Suitability 14+ Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound Purpose Express Passenger Wheel Configuration 4-6-2 The story of the Princess Coronation Class is one of split personalities and purposes and rep…

Length 300mm DCC Type DCC Fitted Period Era 4 (1948 - 1956) Operator/Livery Early BR, Experimental Blue Class Princess Royal Designer Sir William Stanier Entered Service 1935 Minimum Curve R2 Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound Wheel Configuration 4-6-2 Originally proposed to be named as Princess Maud, 6206 Princess Marie Louise entered service on loan at Crewe North, before heading on to Camden as the majori…

Length 300mm DCC Type DCC Fitted Period Era 5 (1956 - 1968) Operator/Livery Late BR, BR Crimson Class Princess Royal Designer Sir William Stanier Entered Service 1935 Minimum Curve R2 Motor 5 Pole Skew Wound Wheel Configuration 4-6-2 Originally proposed to be named as Princess Alice, 6207 Princess Arthur of Connaught entered service on loan at Crewe North on 10 August, 1935, before heading on to b…

Hornby high quality 00 gauge (1:76) model Built at Swindon Works under Lot No. 361 in July 1947, Diagram A9 Class 5101 'Large Prairie' No. 4154 entered traffic at Wellington Shed, remaining there until 11 July, 1953. 4154's remaining shed allocations saw the locomotive cover much of the Great Western region, with spells at Carmarthen, Worcester, Newton Abbot, Banbury, Stourbridge Junction and Oxle…

Built at Swindon Works under Lot No. 269 in August 1931, Diagram A10 Class 61xx 'Large Prairie' No. 6110 entered traffic at Slough, employed on London suburban services, even over London Underground metals. 6110 was the first of the class to be fitted with a cab shutter from new and carried tripcock gear from new for operation on the Underground tracks. Length 165mm DCC Type DCC Fitted Period Era…

Built at Swindon Works under Lot No. 278 in December 1932, Diagram A10 Class 61xx 'Large Prairie' No. 6145 entered traffic at Old Oak Common, employed on London suburban services, even over London Underground metals. Class 61xx locomotives were the mainstays of the Thames Valley suburban services until replaced by DMUs, illustrated by 6145's allocations to Old Oak Common, Slough and Oxford sheds.…

Detailed 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge Steam Locomotive Era 5 Late British Railways 1956-1968 DCC Status 8 Pin socket (NEM 652) Operator British Railways Designer Charles Collett Wheel Configuration 2-6-2T Livery Late Crest Minimum Curve Radius 2 Motor5 Pole Skew wound Class Large Prairie' Built at Swindon Works under Lot No. 369 during August 1948, Diagram A9 Class 5101 'Large Prairie' No. 4160 entered tra…

Detailed OO Scale Locomotive Length 85mm Period Era 3 (1923 - 1947) Operator/Livery LMS, Black Class Class 21 'Pug' Designer Sir John Aspinall Entered Service 1910 Minimum Curve R1 Age Suitability 14+ Motor Type 7 Wheel Configuration 0-4-0ST No. 11244 started life as L&YR No. 28, being built at Horwich in May 1910 and seemingly spent most of its life in and around the dock railway system at Goole.…

Detailed OO Scale Locomotive Length 85mm Period Era 3 (1923 - 1947) Operator/Livery Early BR Black Class Class 21 'Pug' Designer Sir John Aspinall Entered Service 1893 Minimum Curve R1 Age Suitability 14+ Motor Type 7 Wheel Configuration 0-4-0ST No. 51207 started life as L&YR No. 504 and was built at Horwich in December 1893, the first locomotive of the second batch built by Aspinall. Having spent…

Detailed OO Scale Wagon Length 108mm Period Era 2/3 Designer Freelance Minimum Curve R1 Motor RM Wheel Configuration 0-4-0T

Peckett 1426 was built in 1916 for the Glasbrook Bros. at their Garngoch Colliery No.3, which employed 468 men at that time. In 1947, as the coal mines were nationalized, Garngoch came under the NCB's South West Division, Area No. 1, No. 2 Group, which covered Morlais, Mountain and Brynlliw collieries. But by 1965 the colliery was uneconomical and the men and locomotives were transferred to Brynll…