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Prototype Era
Era 5 (1956 to 1966) British Railways Late Crest
Manufacturer description
No. 60033 ‘Seagull’ was among the four new ‘A4s’ built with double chimney and blastpipe in 1938, the remainder of the class not receiving them until the 1950s.
First numbered 4902, it was also one of a batch of six new LNER ‘A4s’ to be named after birds, as Sir Nigel Gresley had a particular fondness for breeding wild birds. ‘Seagull’ was one of three ‘A4’ Class ‘Pacifics’ used for the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, in which the newly formed British Railways sought to test locomotives on the routes of other former ‘Big Four’ members. No. 60033 worked between London Paddington and Plymouth, though it didn’t perform as well as the GWR locomotives that were designed for the route.
The locomotive was withdrawn in December 1962 and scrapped at Doncaster the following year. In 2026, we have given the A4 a tooling update and the model now includes the new Hornby steam generator technology, working headlights and tender lights.
Specific to R30552SS
- Running number 60033
- BR Green livery
- Corridor tender
- Double chimney arrangement.
- Un-valanced streamline body made from die-cast metal
- LHD cab arrangement
- Working headlights
- Working tender light
Common A4 Class features
- High detail OO gauge model based on extensive research and original works drawings
- Heavy die-cast chassis and boiler
- High detail cab and fully decorated backhead with decorated instrument dials
- Pre-fitted 21-pin HM7000 decoder and speaker. The decoder is compatible with NMRA DCC controllers, HM7000 APP control and has the Class A4 sound profile pre-installed for accurate locomotive sounds, synchronised with the chuff rate.
- Pre-fitted steam generator system featuring an optical sensor for accurate chuff rate synchronised with the wheel speed. Steam output is created using piezo element technology. This is a cold water-based system (no heating element)
- Adjustable steam output settings via the decoder
- HM7000 Power Bank compatible
- Powerful 5 pole skew wound motor
- Illuminated flickering firebox
- Quick release locomotive to tender connector
- Pogo pin wheel pickup arrangement for easy pickup servicing
- Electrical pickups on main drive wheels and tender wheels
- Fully decorated crew figures
- Turned brass safety valve
- Prototypical size metal handrails with brass stanchions
- Brass main drive bearings
- Sprung metal buffers
- Front and rear NEM coupling pocket
- Separately fitted simulated coal load.
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