Name: Rapido 817501 L&Y Class 25 No.957 – Lancashire & Yorkshire (As Preserved) (DCC Sound Fitted)
Brand: Rapido
SKU: 817501
Price: 329.95 GBP

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

Manufacturer description

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Class 25
No. 957
Lancashire & Yorkshire Livery (as preserved)
L&Y Style Smokebox Door
1 Piece Boiler Handrail
Ross Pop Safety Valves
Coreless motor with flywheel
21 pin decoder socket in tender
Large tender mounted speaker
MoPower stay-alive fitted.
Plunger loco pickups
Tender wheel bearing pickups
Dynamic firebox flicker
NEM pockets front and rear
Suitable for operation on 2nd radius curves (438mm or greater)

Catalogue listing

Brand

Rapido

Product Code

817501

RRP

£329.95

Model details

DCC status

DCC Sound

Gauge

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Rapido Trains UK OO gauge model of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Class 25 ‘Ironclad’ 0‑6‑0 No.957, supplied with DCC sound. The product carries the manufacturer part number 817501 and represents the locomotive in its pre‑grouping configuration, as preserved on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

The model is fitted with a coreless motor and flywheel, a 21‑pin decoder socket in the tender, a large tender‑mounted speaker and MoPower stay‑alive circuitry. It includes plunger locomotive pickups, tender wheel‑bearing pickups, a dynamic firebox flicker and NEM pockets at both ends. The locomotive is suitable for operation on second‑radius curves of 438 mm or greater and features an L&Y‑style smokebox door, a single boiler handrail and Ross pop safety valves.

The real Class 25 was introduced from the summer of 1876, with 280 examples built by Kitson, Sharp Stewart, Vulcan, Beyer Peacock and the L&Y works at Miles Platting. Originally a freight design, the engines proved effective in mixed traffic and were nicknamed ‘Ironclad’. The final member of the class, No.957, was withdrawn by British Railways in 1959, rescued by Tony Cox in 1960 and transferred to preservation in 1965. Since then it has appeared in several television programmes and films, most famously as the ‘Green Dragon’ in the 1970 feature film The Railway Children. The Rapido rendition is available in a range of liveries covering different periods of the locomotive’s preservation history.