LNWR18901910

One thing puzzles me; S Scale trains are made only for the American market. How, I ask, how is it possible to bring them here into the British market?

Maybe the E2X 0-6-0T, the Class 28 Mogul Experiment 2-6-0, the Freelance K2 4-4-0, the GNR A0 Pacific 4-6-2 and Henry's old shape are good candidates. Is S Scale the same scale as TOMY Trackmaster Thomas trains? That scale seems very interesting.

I pre-ordered one because of my love of Pre-Grouping Steam and I have been trying to pay for the additional charge of £50 for the model ready to be shipped. How can I get around it? I ordered the model on the website (DCC-Ready with no sound as my layout is AC and hand-operated which is a tradition some modellers like myself have).

It reminds me of those American O-Gauge trains from the 1950s (I think).

PECO, Dapol and Graham Farish (by Bachmann) do marvellous ranges of private owner wagons.

That LNER Coach reminds me of the ones seen in Thomas & Friends - oops, sorry - Big World! Big Adventures!

Hornby or Bachmann? There is a difference.

Wow...not many models of said-locomotive like this in RTR are made...until now.

Great work on this beast! Does it run?

Photoshop effects, methinks.

You should get those middle wheels flangeless as to make it run on tighter curves.

Ah, thank you, Corbs! That really helps.

Well, it is but like I said, I wanted to bring this model seen in TGSTTR to reality someday.

That's a Bachmann 45xx and those vans are Dapol (I think).

If anybody remembers the film The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery, an Austerity J94 was altered to resemble a J50. In my opinion, I'd say that it makes a great candidate for a shunting locomotive from the Pre-Grouping Era or as a private industrial shunter?

Yes, indeed! That is the possibility! Also, this is an LSWR design that might have been.

Thank you very much. I did do a lot of research into it. I originally called the Mogul the 800 Class.

Thank you! I am touched by your interest and kind words!

Here's another project in the works and it's what I have been planning for sometime. Using the Drummond 700 Class 0-6-0 from Hornby, adding a front pony-truck, extending the running board and giving it a lick of LSWR green, this is the engine that I have been planning since my LNWR Mogul. At the turn of the century, the London and South Western Railway began to face an increase on commuter trains and local goods work. Dugald Drummond took it upon himself to design a variation of his 700 Class 0-6-0 mainly designed for goods work. The addition of a front pony-truck, extension of a running board to improve weight and an extended smokebox the 700 Class themselves would later gain took the form of the LSWR X1 Class 2-6-0. The first six locomotives (No. 300 - 305) were built in 1898 at Dubs & Co. Works, Glasgow, the second batch of ten (No. 290 - 299) were built later that same year at Nine Elms Locomotive Works and an additional twenty (No. 270 - 289) were built in 1901 at Eastleigh Works months before Queen Victoria's death. A total of 36 locomotives were built during that time. Because of their shrill whistles and their green liveries, they were nicknamed 'Crickets' by crews and enthusiasts. After the 1923 Grouping, these liveries were later malachite green with white lining and black with green lining, but during the Second World War, the livery was plain black with sunshine yellow lettering. After beng acquired by BR in 1948, the engines were finished in LNWR-style lined black livery. The locomotives were all inherited in 1923 by the newly-formed Southern Railway and British Railways in 1948 under the 30270 numbering under the power classification as 4. Withdrawals took place in 1956 with the last being withdrawn in 1959. Two locomotives have survived to preservation, No. 30301 and No. 30288. Both went to the Swanage Railway where the restoration of No. 30301 began with No. 30287 used as donor parts to the locomotive. New parts were made from scratch and 30287 steamed back into service in 1973, its sister engine returning to steam in 1976. No. 30301 retained its BR lined-black mixed-traffic livery and No. 288 was restored in the original LSWR green livery. No. 287 was on loan to the Kent & East Sussex Railway and the Mid Hants Railway in the 1980s. No. 30301 remained at the Swanage Railway until it went to the Bluebell Railway on loan where it was taken out of service in 1992 when it suffered a minor crack on its brake pipe on the front buffer-beam as it was about to take a train back down the line tender-first. It went out of service but was later moved to the East Somerset Railway as to reduce siding space. No. 287 had been restored to running order on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway and the Buckhinghamshire Railway Centre. No. 30301 is currently on display at the Yeovil Railway Centre in Somserset. This locomotive will be using the Hornby Drummond 700 Class as a basis and the number I decided on would be No. 287 and the LSWR green livery. It will take some time, but if I can do a North Western Mogul, then I can make a South Western Mogul. Let's hope for the best!

It was inspired by the tank engine from The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery. Only this engine is backdated to the Pre-Grouping Era and is a dock shunter.

A teaser for my future project...

Thanks! The LSWR Drummond X1 Class 2-6-0 it is, then. Like the LMS Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 before it, its main purpose is mixed-traffic work along branchlines as an auxhilary engine to Drummond's 700 Class 0-6-0 tender engines.

Project X? Thanks, that sounds good. I might use that for an LSWR Mogul with that classification. Maybe an LSWR X1 Class 2-6-0 using a Drummond 700 Class as a basis?

The infilled splashers variant reminds me of Emily.

Luckily, no-one was hurt (for the most part).