Available Exclusively from Rails of Sheffield

Included:

62496 “Glen Loy” BR Lined Black Early Emblem (1948-1961)
62471 “Glen Falloch” BR Lined Black Late Crest (1956-1960)

Expected Delivery Q4 2026 / Q1 2027 (Subject to Change at Manufacturer's Discretion).

Unsuitable for Rails DCC Fitting Service as this model requires X2 decoders. Please contact us for more details.

This pack represents the two D34 locomotives that featured on the BBC’s ‘Railway Roundabout’ TV series in 1959, having been specially cleaned and embellished for filming, which took place on the West Highland line between Glasgow and Fort William.

Model Specification

• DCC Ready - 21 pin socket.
  
• Finescale wheels to RP25 profile.
  
• NEM couplings.
  
• Pre-fitted speaker for DCC sound.
  
• Smooth 12V powerful motor with flywheel.
  
• Detailed cab interior with illuminated Firebox Glow.
  
• Driving wheels and tender wheel pickup.
  
• Cosmetic internal motion between the frames under the boiler.
  
• Detailing pack including optional snowplough, lamps & fireirons.

Detail Variations

• NBR smokebox wing plates.
  
• Internal motion between the frames under the boiler.
  
• Equalised bogie and Helical Spring bogie frames.
  
• Westinghouse and Vacuum brake rigging.
  
• NBR and LNER tender variations including option for enclosed tender cab.

History

A familiar locomotive to fans of Scottish Railways, the North British Railway Class ‘K’ (later LNER D34) 4-4-0 is available for the first time as a highly detailed OO gauge model.

Introduced from 1913, the ‘Glens’ were the final development of similar locomotives designed by William Reid for the North British Railway from 1905. Built at their works in Cowlairs, Springburn, they were designed to be suited to mixed traffic duties, being as much at home on passenger or freight duties on all parts of the NBR network.

All thirty-two locomotives were named after Scottish Glens, mainly located along the West Highland route to Fort William and Mallaig, with which they became associated with for most of their lives. The challenging conditions of this particular route provided little issue for the ‘Glen’ class which took it in their stride until replacement by more modern locomotives in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Away from the West Highland, the locomotives served destinations such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and the parts of the Waverley route, being based at either Eastfield, St. Margarets or Thornton sheds. Their reliability and suitability to these workings meant that only five of the class had been withdrawn by 1950. With modernisation spreading across Scotland’s railway network, removal from service restarted in 1958 and took three years to complete.

No.62469 ‘Glen Douglas’ enjoyed a reprieve, being restored to service in its original NBR livery in 1959. Running alongside three other Scottish pre-grouping locomotives similarly treated (including the famous ‘Caledonian Single’), the reborn No.256 worked a series of enthusiast railtours across Scotland until 1966, and now survives as the sole NBR K Class on display in the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.