Hornby BR Green E/E 4-6-0 Castle “Earl of St Germans” model R3383TTS

£169.95

LOCOMOTIVE AS NEW (engine in perfect cosmetic order throughout retaining fine colour and decals, light signs of use, tested and offered in faultless running order)

BOX PACKAGING AS NEW (complete with respective paperwork and sealed accessories pack, lightest of  handling marks visible on closest of inspection)

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Offering a faultless 00 gauge engine especially developed by “Hornby Model Railways” as part of their DIGITAL SOUND series. This locomotive in BR Green with Early Emblem is the 4-6-0 Castle “Earl of St Germans. This example comes complete with all paperwork accessories (where appropriate and packaging)!

The 4073 Class or Castle class were 4-6-0 steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway design built between 1923 and 1950. They were designed by the railway’s Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett, for working the company’s express passenger trains.

The origins of this highly successful design date back to the Star Class of 1907 which introduced the basic 4-cylinder 4-6-0 layout with long-travel valves and Belpaire firebox that was to become synonymous with GWR express passenger locomotives.

Unlike the Star class, there was no prototype. Collett was sufficiently confident of the design to place an order with Swindon railway works for ten locomotives in 1923 although there was a four-month delay between the appearance of the first example, in August 1923 and the second in the December to allow for the correction of any teething problems.

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