Corgi 1/120 NRM LNER 4-6-2 Sir Nigel Gresley A4 Class 60007 (ST97502)

This Corgi Rail Legend encapsulates the glory of this piece of British history.

In 1937 the 100th Gresley Pacific was built by London and North Eastern Railway who paid reverence to its designer by giving the 4-6-2 locomotive his name. Originally numbered 4498, Sir Nigel Gresley was due to receive the name Bittern, before the realisation of its commemorative status. As with the earlier LNER A4 Pacifics, it was built with a single chimney and side valances covering the wheels which were later removed to improve maintenance access.

Sir Nigel Gresley carries a commemorative plaque as the holder of the post-war steam speed record reaching 112mph in May 1959. As with the Mallard?s record this was achieved descending southward from Stoke Summit, but unlike the Mallard?s special attempt this was with a full train of passengers returning from an excursion. As with other A4s, Sir Nigel Gresley has worn many liveries throughout its career. When released to traffic in October 1937 it carried the standard LNER garter blue of the A4 Pacifics and has since carried various liveries. Sir Nigel Gresley, now bearing the British Railways number 60007 with a British Railways blue livery, was saved from scrapping in 1966 by a small group of men who set up the ?A4 Preservation Society?, later known as ?The A4 Locomotive Society Ltd? and now ?The Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Preservation Trust Ltd?. ?The A4 Locomotive Society? has since become the subsidiary company that operates the locomotive for the Trust. The Trust is committed to keeping the locomotive operating and running special excursions on both the main line and heritage railways such as the North Yorkshire Moors Railway where it is based.

Length 180mm.

Corgi 1/120 LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Silver Link 2509 (ST97503)

Corgi 1/120 LNER 4-6-2 Call Boy A3 Class 2795 (ST97602)

Corgi 1/120 BR 4-6-2 Britannia 70000 circa 2012 (ST97701)

Corgi 1/120 NRM LNER 4-6-2 Mallard A4 Class Garter Blue (ST97501)

This Corgi Rail Legend encapsulates the glory of this piece of British history.

Length 180mm.

Corgi 1/120 LNER 4-6-2 A4 Class 'Bittern' 4464 A4 Gathering 2013 SPECIAL EDITION (ST97504)

Corgi 1/120 BR 4-6-2 A4 Class 'Dwight D Eisenhower' 60008 A4 Gathering 2013 SPECIAL EDITION (ST97505)

Corgi 1/120 LNER 4-6-2 A4 Class 'Dominion of Canada' 4489 A4 Gathering 2013 SPECIAL EDITION (ST97506)

Corgi 1/120 BR 4-6-2 A4 Class 'Union of South Africa' 60009 A4 Gathering 2013 SPECIAL EDITION (ST97507)

Corgi 1/120 NRM LNER 4-6-2 Flying Scotsman A3 Class, 'As Preserved' circa 2011 (ST97601)

This Corgi Rail Legend encapsulates the glory of this piece of British history.

Length 180mm.

Corgi 1/120 BR Class A3 4-6-2 Trigo circa 1949-52 (ST97603)

Corgi 1/120 LNER 4-6-2 A3 Class 'Flying Scotsman' 4472 - 50 Years in Preservation (ST97604)

After almost forty years in service for the GNR, LNER and British Railways, 'Flying Scotsman' retired from main-line service in 1963.  By 1964 all fifty-eight A3 Class locomotives had been retired from service with BR, 'Flying Scotsman' No.60103 being the only one to have been saved for preservation by Alan Pedger, a businessman from Nottinghamshire. Pedger had seen 'Flying Scotsman' at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924, this left a lasting memory as just under forty years later he saved 'Flying Scotsman' from the fate of the scrapyard when he purchased it from British Railways for the sum of ?3,000.

As part of the deal with BR, Pedger agreed to restore 'Flying Scotsman' to its LNER livery of Apple Green carrying its LNER-era numbering of 4472.  On the 26th March 1963 'Flying Scotsman' emerged from the Doncaster Works in its newly painted LNER livery with a single chimney with the smoke deflectors removed and paired with a corridor type tender taken from the withdrawn A4 Class No.60034 'Lord Faringdon'.

Corgi 1/120 BR 4-6-2 A3 Class 'Prince of Wales' 60054 (ST97605)

Corgi 1/120 BR 4-6-2 Britannia Class 'Oliver Cromwell' 70013 - Circa 2012 SPECIAL EDITION (ST97702)

'Oliver Cromwell' was the fourteenth of fifty-five Standard Class 7 (Britannia Class) locomotives to be built.  No.70013 entered service on the 30th May 1951 allocated to British Railways Norwich depot before moving to Ipswich in September 1958. 'Oliver Cromwell' spent time at five different sheds over the next decade until it travelled by road to Alan Bloom's steam museum at Bressingham Gardens at the end of its main-line working life.

In 2004 No. 70013 moved to the Great Central Railway where it was fully dismantled and rebuilt ready for return to main-line working in preparation for the 40th anniversary of the end of steam. 'Oliver Cromwell' now forms part of the National Railway Collection and runs regular excursions preserved in a Brunswick Green livery and carrying the BR late totem as it would have worn in its final main-line years of service.

Corgi 1/120 BR 4-6-2 Britannia Class 'Robin Hood' 70038 - BR Early (ST97703)

In total there were only fifty-five Standard Class 7 (Britannia Class) locomotives ever produced, all built at the British Railways Crewe works.  Construction of the first Britannia was completed on the 2nd January 1951 with the first recorded journey taking place in the form of a test run between Crewe and Carlisle at 12:50 on 11th January 1951.  The test load was four-hundred and forty tons of empty rolling stock including a dynameter car which recorded a maximum speed of 75mph.
'Robin Hood' was the thirty-ninth Standard Class 7 to be built and entered into traffic on 29th January 1953, almost exactly two years after the first ever Britannia entered service.

No.70038 spent the first part of its working life in North London and East Anglia serving the East Coast mainline.  'Robin Hood' spent its last four years working out of Carlisle before sadly being sold for scrap to J. McWilliams of Shettleston in January 1968.

Corgi 1/120 BR 4-6-2 Britannia Class 'Charles Dickens' 70033 (ST97704)

Corgi 1/120 BR 4-6-0 Castle Class 'Nunney Castle' 5029 Circa 2013 SPECIAL EDITION (ST97801)