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K.C. R.R. converted to standard gauge in 1890. Locomotive sold to the Columbia and Western Railway in 1896 (C&W #3). [28] The C&W was taken over by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1898. The Canadian Pacific Railway designated the locomotive 2nd 507, but never physically renumbered it. [32] Purchased by the WP&YR in 1900.
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class V2 2-6-2 steam locomotives were designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for express mixed traffic work, and built at the LNER shops at Doncaster and Darlington between 1936 and 1944. The best known is the first of the class, 4771 (later 800 and 60800) Green Arrow, which is the sole survivor of the class.
OO gauge or OO scale (also, 00 gauge and 00 scale) is the most popular standard gauge model railway standard in the United Kingdom, [1] outside of which it is virtually unknown. OO gauge is one of several 4 mm-scale standards (4 mm to 1 ft (304.8 mm), or 1:76.2), and the only one to be marketed by major manufacturers.
Disposition. Operational. Southern Railway 630 is a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built in February 1904 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Richmond, Virginia for the Southern Railway (SOU) as a member of the Ks-1 class. It was primarily assigned to haul freight trains on the Murphy Branch between Asheville and Murphy, North ...
Heljan A/S is a Danish model railway company based in Søndersø. Originally specialising in decorations and accessories for model railways, it has now also developed a substantial range of rolling stock. It has diversified into modelling the British scene, and since 2002 has released several OO gauge diesel locomotives, and several O gauge models.
List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection. Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums:
Numbers. 4700-4988 : LNER,BR : 64700-64988. Withdrawn. 1959–1962. Disposition. All scrapped. The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class J39 was a class of medium powered 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed for mixed-traffic work throughout the former LNER system between London and the north of Scotland. [3]
The first OO gauge model of an as-built locomotive was produced by Graham Farish in 1950 followed by Hornby/Wrenn in 1962 and by the modified version. [75] In 1959, Tri-ang Railways produced a TT gauge version of Clan Line. [76] Hornby and Graham Farish currently produce the rebuilt version of the class in OO gauge and N gauge respectively.