Great Western Railway Armstrong '517 ' Class 0-4-2 Tank Loco No. 1428 — Steamline Ltd.

LBN01. Great Western Railway Armstrong '517 ' Class 0-4-2 Tank Loco No. 1428. In the GWR early 1920's up to circa 1934 plain green livery with gold lettering shaded red - one of only two models produced in this livery as a special order (see below). This is factory built for Lee Marsh Models by SMT in Korea and is Order No. 35 of a small production run now sold out. Fitted with stunning cab detail and working inside motion. Also fitted with DCC and sound using an ESU Loksound decoder (address 1428). The model is supplied in its original box with accessories, instructions, gloves and display plinth and has only been taken off its plinth for the photographs below. There is also a DCC blanking plug for running the loco on DC if required. I sold the other Lee Marsh loco in this livery late in 2024 and I have seen documentary evidence from Lee which confirms that the factory only produced 2 models in this livery. The prototype was built at Wolverhampton Works (Stafford Road) as part of batch 'I' of 12 locos Nos. 1421–1432 in 1877, the class eventually totalling 156 Iocos. They were used for local passenger work. The last survivor (No. 848) was scrapped in 1945. RESERVED.