Ellis Clark Trains C1031RI

LYR 'Pug' 0-4-0ST 1288 LYR Works Photographic Grey Steam Locomotive

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Prototype Era
Era 2 (1875 to 1923) Pre-grouping

Manufacturer description

EXCLUSIVE TO RAILS OF SHEFFIELD

Initially outshopped in fully lined workshop photographic grey, No.1288 was built at the LYR’s Horwich works in 1895, part of a batch of five ‘Pugs’ built in that year.

Specification:

• Sprung buffers where appropriate
  
• Mostly die-cast construction
  
• Semi-open die-cast chassis
  
• Tank and cab variations
  
• Highly detailed backhead and cab
  
• Removable NEM coupling and pocket
  
• Space for EM/P4 Conversion
  
• Firebox glow
  
• Full detailing pack
  
• Etched plates and separately fitted finely etched detail
  
• Plux12 socket in ‘DCC Ready’ models
  
• Coreless motor with superior quality gearbox
  

History:

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway had some rather twisted outposts – twisted as in tightly curved, that is! The sprawling docks at Liverpool, Fleetwood and Goole all had extensive and sinuous railway systems, as did many shunting yards in the Manchester area. These demanded compact, short-wheelbase engines and until the later years of the nineteenth century employed a rag-tag selection of decrepit examples that were no longer fit for purpose.

When John Aspinall became the L&Y’s Chief Mechanical Engineer in 1886, he soon set about modernising – and standardising – the company’s shunting fleet. Aspinall’s first in-house 0-4-0ST emerged from Horwich Works in 1891, with a further 11 entering service that decade. A total of 57 L&Y ‘Pugs’ were scuttling about their business by the time construction ended in 1910. Initially known as ‘1153 Class’ (the number of the first engine), they were redesignated Class 21 in 1920.

All L&Y Pugs were inherited by the LMS in 1923, and it was during the Grouping period that they started to wander, slogging their little hearts out at factories and power stations from Somerset to Scotland. Pugs were resilient, and a lack of dinky diesel shunters meant that many worked into the 1960s.

Two L&Y Pugs survive today in preservation – one at the East Lancs Railway and the other just over the hills at Yorkshire’s Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

Catalogue listing

Ellis Clark Trains offer a limited‑edition model of LYR No 1288, a 0‑4‑0 saddle‑tank locomotive built at Horwich Works in 1895. The model is part of the Rails of Sheffield range, bears the manufacturer part number C1031RI and represents the pre‑grouping period of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

The locomotive is presented in photographic grey with full lining and features mostly die‑cast construction, a semi‑open die‑cast chassis and a highly detailed backhead and cab. Additional details include sprung buffers where appropriate, a removable NEM coupling pocket, space for an EM/P4 conversion, firebox glow, etched plates, a coreless motor with a high‑quality gearbox and a Plux12 socket for DCC‑ready operation.

Historically, the LYR ‘Pug’ class was introduced by Chief Mechanical Engineer John Aspinall from 1891 to replace earlier shunting engines on tightly curved dock and yard lines. A total of 57 engines were built by 1910, later redesignated Class 21 in 1920 and inherited by the LMS after the 1923 Grouping. Several examples remained in service into the 1960s, and two survive in preservation on the East Lancashire Railway and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.