R30209A Hornby Dublo LNER A3 Class 4-6-2 4472 1963 Alan Pegler Gold Plated Limited Edition Steam Locomotive Signs-and-Posters Straight or angled front number

Straight or angled front number boards

A significant engineering innovation was the fitting of the BR Caprotti valve gear to 30 members of the class – this part proved to be more mechanically efficient than the standard Walschaerts valve gear and the Caprotti locomotives were consequently more powerful for their size

New cab with higher and shorter roof

The Scalextric range of buildings have interchangeable modules

Sprung centre driving wheels

R30209A Hornby Dublo LNER A3 Class 4-6-2 4472 1963 Alan Pegler Gold Plated Limited Edition Steam Locomotive Signs-and-Posters Straight or angled front numberLimited Edition The largest of the constituent companies that would become the famous LNER was the GNR, and their Chief Mechanical Engineer naturally adopted the same position in the newly formed company, a man by the name of Herbert Nigel Gresley. As the brains behind the locomotive stock of the GNR, he had commissioned a new high speed passenger locomotive class to serve the GNRs London to York main line. These became the A1 locomotive class, before