R30563 Class 5MT 4-6-0 BR Black Early Emblem 45407 ‘The Lancashire Fusilier’ (As Preserved Condition’) Steam Locomotive

Exclusive to Rails of Sheffield.

Features Include:

• Beautifully detailed model with many separately fitted parts
  
• Digital & Sound capability - 21-pin socket
  
• Powerful motor with flywheel, 6-wheel drive & all-wheel pickups
  
• Flickering firebox glow effect
  
• Working headlamps
  
• Metal sprung buffers
  
• NEM tension lock couplings
  

The LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0, more commonly known as the ‘Black Five’ Class of locomotives were designed by Sir William Stanier and built between 1934 and 1951.

Stanier became Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1932, tasked with introducing new, more modern, and powerful designs of locomotive. Having worked previously as Works Manager for the Great Western Railway, Stanier recognised that with the LMS covering such a wide scope of the UK, there was a need for larger locomotives that could travel anywhere and do anything, resulting in the mixed traffic ‘Black Five’ Class for the 20th Century.

45407

Built for the LMS by Armstrong Whitworth in 1937, No.5407 spent most of its initial life in the Midlands, including (appropriately) a spell based at Sheffield (Grimethorpe) shed between 1948 and 1954. It survived until the final days of steam in August 1968.

Preserved upon withdrawal, it has spent almost all of its preservation life in active service, working on railtours across the country from the 1970s until the current day.

Purchased by Riley & Sons Engineering in 1997, the locomotive was restored to its BR condition with a number of modifications to allow for operation on Britain's 21st century railway, including air brakes and new signalling systems.

45407 was named 'Lancashire Fusilier' in 2004, and is now one of the most well-travelled locomotives in the UK, regularly appearing on railtours and preserved railways in England, Scotland and Wales. It is famous for hauling the 'Jacobite' steam trains on the West Highland Extension from Fort William to Mallaig - a task it performs regularly, year after year.

The model has been produced in its mainline railtour condition, with 26D (Bury) shedcode, black smokebox door numberplate, and pre-attached Lancashire Fusilier nameplates.