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Hornby R30404

GWR - Saint Class - 2999 'Lady of Legend'

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Prototype Era
Era 11 (2016 to 2026) The Last Days of Privatisation

Manufacturer description

Fill your model railway layout with Saints, like this elegant 'Lady of Legend'. With sprung metal buffers and NEM couplings, this is a highly detailed model locomotive that beautifully replicates the original steam engine. You can even upgrade to HM7000 with a 21-pin decoder.

History

As none of the original ‘Saint’ Class survived into preservation, the last being withdrawn in 1953, the Great Western Society purchased GWR ‘Hall’ Class No. 4942 Maindy Hall from Barry scrapyard in 1974 with the intention of rebuilding it as a ‘Saint’. The ‘Hall’ was a direct development of the ‘Saint’, No. 2925 Saint Martin being used as its prototype in 1924 by Charles B. Collett, Churchward’s successor as Chief Mechanical Engineer at the GWR. Work on the conversion finally got underway in 1995 and, in April 2019, No. 2999 Lady of Legend made its first moves in steam at Didcot Railway Centre.

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Prototype information

^* Class names often change over the lifespan of a locomotive, so this is not necessarily the class name used by the operator in the period modelled.

The Hornby model of the GWR Saint Class locomotive, numbered 2999 'Lady of Legend', is part of the 2025 range of models. This OO gauge model is DCC ready, with a 21 pin socket, and features a painted finish in GWR green livery. The model has a 5 pole skew wound motor and is designed to be used on 2nd radius curves of 438mm or larger.

The Lady of Legend model is a reconstruction of the GWR Saint Class, a class of locomotives that did not survive into preservation, with the last being withdrawn in 1953. The Great Western Society purchased a GWR Hall Class locomotive, No. 4942 Maindy Hall, from a scrapyard in 1974 with the intention of rebuilding it as a Saint Class locomotive. In 1995, work on the conversion began, and the locomotive made its first moves in steam at Didcot Railway Centre in April 2019.