Hornby R3980 BR, Class W1 'Hush Hush' Streamlined, 4-6-4, 60700 - Era 5 Hobby Boss

Hornby R3980 BR, Class W1 'Hush Hush' Streamlined, 4-6-4, 60700 - Era 5 Hobby BossHaving completed nearly 90,000 miles of test running since new, Sir Nigel Gresley's W1 4 6 4HP 10000 entered Darlington Works on 21 August 1935 for what was anticipated to be a major overhaul and modification. During this period Gresley decided that it was time to rebuild 10000 as a three cylinder locomotive with a conventional firetube boiler and 10000 was moved to Doncaster Works on 13 October 1936, the first drawing for the modification being

but after standing idle for a period the reservoir depleted and a secondary source was required to recharge the reservoir

the decoration of each model has been painstakingly researched and extends to things like window stickers and the ornate etchings on the toilet windows of the LNWR-liveried models

this locomotive was fitted with a Mirrlees engine and the Branchline model faithfully recreates this

Drilled Bogie Equalising Beams

from the B17 and an experimental double Kylchap blastpipe and chimney was fitted

Running number 44907

• Moving Eyes (when power is applied)

Built at the Crewe works under number 4907 and entering service in November 1945

Powerful 3 Pole Motor

Custom ‘Accurathrash’  Speaker Technology including large ‘Accurathrash’ Style Bass Speaker (on DCC Sound-fitted models only)

Individual pipe and cable runs added to the main frames

with Day/Night mode – selectable via the chassis-mounted switches or via a dedicated DCC function