Hornby Dublo Die-cast LNER Garter Blue A4 Pacific Gannet 4900 model R3972

Offering a superb NEW 00 gauge locomotive especially developed by “Hornby Model Railways” as part of their Die-cast Hornby Dublo Ready Series. This locomotive is the Dublo BR Hornby Dublo LNER Garter Blue  A4 Pacific Gannet 4900 R3972.  Complete, UN-OPENED which includes usual packaging instruction sheet accessories and picture sleeve!

A4 is a class of streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotive designed by Nigel Gresley for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1935. Their streamlined design gave them high-speed capability as well as making them instantly recognisable, one of the class, 4468 Mallard, holds the world record as the fastest steam locomotive.

Thirty-five of the class were built to haul express passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line route from London Kings Cross via York and Newcastle to Edinburgh, Scotland. They remained in service on the East Coast mainline until the early 1960s when they were replaced by Deltic diesel locomotives.