LGST156. LSWR Drummond Class F9 'Bug' Inspection Locomotive and Saloon No. 733. The loco section is in LSWR lined loco green livery with the saloon section in LSWR salmon and brown coach livery. This was built mostly in brass by Scottish Scale Locomotive Works with their plate on the underside and is likely to have been scratchbuilt. Fitted with a Buhler-type motor, single reduction gearbox, Slaters wheels, and with very good cab detail. The model is lightly used. The prototype was into service in 1899 from Nine Elms Works, designed by Dugald Drummond and intended for him and his staff to visit all parts of the LSWR system, perhaps a tall order for what was essentially a 4-2-0 attached to a 4-wheel coach. Unfortunately he died in 1912 and his successor Robert Urie made little use of it. So it spent many years in store at Eastleigh Works with occasional inspection trips into Southampton Docks, this included in Southern Railway days with it renumbered as No. 58S. It was finally withdrawn in 1940 with the frame and wheels (excluding drivers) then being used to transport heavy loads around Eastleigh Works. There is a rumour that the coach body section survived as a garden shed in Swanage. RESERVED.
