There is a load more info about the prototype and model below after the ordering info but the key things for ordering one are: -

• Expected Delivery is now early 2012

• Price is to be £299

• Liveries to be lined Maroon, Lined Green or Plain Black (See right at bottom of the page)

• Special offer prices for orders placed in advance = £235 plus postage

click on the images below for larger views of the planned liveries

On February 15, 1888, the first of a new class of 24-ton standard contractor’s industrial tank locomotives, Maker’s No. 299, rolled off the production line of the Railway Foundry, Leeds. This saddle tank featured 13” x 20” inside cylinders, and a simple, robust design and construction. Later known as the firm of Hudswell Clarke, this manufacturer eventually had produced eighty of this class of locomotive when the final engine, Maker’s No. 1750, was completed on July 19th 1946. The model we are producing represents the class as built in the late 1920s through to the mid 1930s.

Over a period of over 70 years, these little engines worked on Light Railways (famously including the Easingwold Railway, whose loco No.2 was of this class), railway construction duties, in collieries and government and private industrial facilities across Britain.

One engine, Maker’s No. 1530, of 1926 was bought by the Sydney County Council in Australia, and worked the Bunnerong Power Station sidings until its sale in 1947. It ended its days at the Wallarah Colliery at Catherine Hill Bay, south of Newcastle, NSW.

Three examples of the class have survived into preservation, though none is operational.

Made in the same Chinese factory which produced our acclaimed On30 Coffee Pot models, this superior model will feature

• An injection-moulded, painted, ready-to-run body and chassi
• Finescale wheels
• Six-wheel electrical pickup
• High-torque flywheel-equipped motor, driving the rear axle
• 40:1 precision gearbox for slow, smooth running
• Sprung rear wheels, and prototypically correct 'inside-out' coupling rods (front rod outside rear rod)
• DCC and sound ready, with provision for easy speaker installation
• Full cab detail
• Sprung buffers
• Hook drawgear, with three-link couplings
• Choice of three liveries: lined maroon, lined green, and lined blue
• Included is an etched brass fret containing a selection of prototypically correct cabside Maker’s plates, plus suitable saddletank nameplates, and engine number plates
• Also included is a set of injection-moulded 7mm scale loco tools, including shovels, picks, pricker, hammers, oil bottles and bucket

Additional details of liveries, pilot models, delivery dates etc will be placed on this site as they are finalised.