LHT02. LMS Stanier Rebuilt ‘Royal Scot’ 4-6-0 and Tender No. 6170 ‘British Legion’. In LMS lined crimson lake, weathered, with gold/yellow insignia and shedplate 5A Crewe North. From a Gladiator brass kit and fitted with a Portescap motor/gearbox, Slaters wheels, American pickup system, and very good cab detail. This is an older, used model which requires wide radius curves due to a limited bogie swing. The prototype was a rebuild of the experimental high pressure loco ‘Fury’, the rebuild carried out by North British Loco Co. at Glasgow in 1935. The LMS added it to the ‘Royal Scot’ class as a matter of convenience as it was not really a ‘Scot’ having a unique and longer boiler which could not be exchanged with other members of the class (which also prolonged its time in works for heavy repairs). LMS engine crews described the extra power from this bigger boiler as being able to pull ‘one coach more than a Scot’. It lasted until December 1962, being withdrawn from Llandudno Junction (having spent only 3 months there, it was really a Crewe loco). £895.
