LGST113. BR Bulleid Rebuilt Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35006 ‘Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.’ In lined BR green with late tender crest and shedplate 72B Salisbury (I believe she was a Salisbury engine for most if not all of her life). This is a brass model produced in Korea for Golden Age Models but is not a regular production model. It started life as the production sample coming to the UK in bare brass for inspection prior to the full production series being 'signed off' for manufacturing. At this time it had no electronics but subsequently these were fitted including the correct Faulhaber motor/gearbox and wiper pickups (please note it is a DC model, unlike the production batch which were DCC and Sound). It was painted and lined in the UK by John Cockroft. It is fitted with the usual Golden Age refinements including working inside cylinder and excellent cab detail. It has screw couplings (the production series had a buckeye-type coupling on the tender). The model has been lightly used and is supplied in its original inner and outer boxes but the outer box does not have a Golden Age end label indicating the contents. Due to the box length exceeding the maximum size for Royal Mail Special Delivery, shipping (UK and International) will be by DHL at cost price. The prototype was into service from Eastleigh Works in December 1941 as Southern Railway No. 21C6. It became BR No. 35006 in 1948 and was rebuilt in October 1959. Withdrawal from Salisbury came in August 1964, thence (thankfully) to Barry where she sat until 1983 (losing her tender in the meantime to another preservation group). She was the 144th rescue loco from Barry and moved for the first time under her own steam in 2015 after a massive preservation effort at the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire railway. SOLD.
