Hornby: improved Sir DInadan - SR N15/King Arthur class 4-6-0 "Sir Lavaine":

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The Southern Railway’s King Arthur class were designed by Maunsell as a development of the LSWR’s N15 class. Most of the class, especially those intended to run on the Western Section, had bogie tenders and Eastleigh or Urie style cabs. (In any case the six-wheel tender Hornby supplied with Sir Dinadan is not an SR tender at all but a Midland one painted green.)

This model of Sir Lavaine is based on the old Hornby Sir Dinadan but is much improved compared with the original Margate model. The old moulded handrails have been removed and replaced with actual wire, it has a new chimney, new buffers, brass nameplates (for 773 Sir Lavaine), an Eastleigh-style cab roof, and a complete replacement kit-built Urie-style bogie tender with real coal – plus, of course, a repaint into the earlier SR style livery. It also runs well including through Peco code 100 pointwork.

Please note, however, that the smoke deflectors are replacements, that the cab floor has painted-over glue marks (presumably a driver was once fitted alongside the still-present fireman), that there is a modified loco-to tender coupling, that there is no front coupling and that the tender rear coupling has no hook. I think this conversion was carried out some while ago and there are places (on the cylinders, for instance) where the livery needs touching-up or weathering. Alternatively it could, of course, be refinished in BR green livery.

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Category: Collectables:Model Railways and Trains:OO Gauge:Locomotives
Location: Ilkley