Description
Highland Railway’s
‘Big Goods’ 4-6-0, Britain’s first class of 4-6-0. Despite the nickname ‘Jones Goods’ that was commonly applied to the class, it
was Chief Engineer David Jones’ Chief Draughtsman, David Anderson Hendrie, who suggested that the 4-6-0 arrangement, common in other countries, could work.
Rapido Trains UK is to produce one of Scotland’s
most famous steam locomotives
MetroVick Type 2 for the HR.
Sharp Stewart built 15 ‘Big Goods’ in 1894 and, eventually, they could be found throughout the Highland’s system. The LMS started to withdraw them in 1929 and the last was
condemned in 1940. Happily, the LMS preserved pioneer No. 103. It found fame when BR returned it to action in 1958. Withdrawn again in 1965, it’s now displayed in Glasgow’s Riverside
Museum.
Here’s the specification of our
‘OO’ gauge model:
• Four types of chimneys
• Two different smokeboxes
• Two types of safety valves
• With or without tender
toolboxes
Myriad detail differences
• High quality paint finish
• Powerful, smooth running
mechanism
• Factory-fitted sound
speaker
• 21-pin DCC decoder
socket
