Hornby OO R3434 SR 21C1 Channel Packet Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2 Air Smoothed Casing Southern Green Sunshine Lettering
Hornby Railways OO Gauge R3434 SR 21C1 Channel Packet Bulleid Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2 Pacific Original Condition with Air-Smoothed Casing Southern Malachite Green Sunshine Lettering
A completely new model of the Bulleid Merchant Navy class 4-6-2 pacific type locomotives built from 1941 and fitted with the original style air smoothed boiler casing. This was designed to provide good air flow to clear exhaust smoke from the drivers' view and allow the locomotive to be cleaned by mechanical carriage washing plants. The casing gave the locomotives a very clean external appearance profiled to match well with the coaching stock.
This will be a highly detailed model, including cab and tender footplate interior detailing.
DCC Ready 8 pin decoder required for DCC operation.
Conceived in 1937 when Oliver Bulleid became Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway, the Merchant Navy Class represented Bulleid’s vision for a quick accelerating, mixed traffic 4-6-2 locomotive, equally capable of hauling passenger services (such as the Golden Arrow and Atlantic Coast Expresses), or freight workings, to a speed of around 75mph. Mainly designed from the Brighton Works Drawing Office, under C.S Cocks, Bulleid, always aware of practical applications and costing implications, ensured that the best design practices of the time were applied to the new locomotive. Like his mentor, Nigel Gresley, Bulleid was a technically arrogant CME, an advocate of locomotives being driven hard and to brisk schedules and this materialised in his design ideas.