Hornby OO R3105 GWR 5075 Wellington Castle Class 4-6-0 GWR Green Hawksworth Livery
Hornby OO GWR 5075 Wellington Castle Class 4-6-0 GWR Green Hawksworth Livery R3105
A highly detailed model of the GWR Castle class express passenger locomotives featuring many separately fitted parts to allow a wide range of detail variations to be replicated. The locomotive is driven by a powerful motor allowing realistic GWR express trains to be hauled with ease.
5075 was originally named Devizes Castle, however during WW2 a number of GWR Castles were renamed to commemorate the aircraft of the RAF. 5075 received the name Wellington in October 1940, after the Vickers bomber.
Hornby have modelled 5075 Wellington in post WW2 condition with the features introduced by the companys' last CME, F W Hawksworth. In addition to the return of full lining for these express passenger engines the flat-sided tender introduced by Hawksworth carries the initial letters G W flanking the company crest.
DCC Ready. 8 pin decoder required for DCC operation.
Brief locomotive history
5075 was completed in August 1938, named Devizes Castle, a ruined castle in Wiltshire beneath which the GWR's Devizes branch ran in a tunnel. The new locomotive was sent to Wolverhampton Stafford Road shed.
In the autumn of 1940 Castles 5071 to 5082 were renamed, gaining the names of RAF aircraft then in serving in the defence of Britain against Nazi Germany. 5075 was named Wellington, after the Vickers long range medium bomber, one of the few weapons able to reach and attack German forces.
5075 would have been due for a major overhaul around 1945/6, emerging with a new Hawksworth flat-sided tender and lettered in the new post-war style.
Following nationalisation 5075 remained based in the northern outposts of the GWR, moving to Chester in 1950, but had migrated to the far South West and Plymouth Laira shed by 1959. Finally withdrawn from Bristol, St. Phillips Marsh shed in 1962 5075 was scrapped at Cahsmores in Newport.