LSL111. LMS Rebuilt ‘Royal Scot’ 4-6-0 Loco and Tender No. 6170 ‘British Legion’. In LMS lined crimson with gold lettering shaded black, painted by Conrad Cooper (signed), and with shedplate 1B Camden. This is from a Gladiator brass kit, very well built by Graham Varley and paired with a Sancheng rivetted tender. Fitted with a heavy duty multi-stage gearbox with a Buhler or similar motor, Slaters wheels and excellent cab detail. The model is lightly used. The prototype was a rebuild of the experimental high pressure loco ‘Fury’, the rebuild carried out by North British Loco Co. at Glasgow in 1935. The LMS added it to the ‘Royal Scot’ class as a matter of convenience as it was not really a ‘Scot’ having a unique and longer boiler which could not be exchanged with other members of the class (which also prolonged its time in works for heavy repairs). LMS engine crews described the extra power from this bigger boiler as being able to pull ‘one coach more than a Scot’. It lasted until December 1962, being withdrawn from Llandudno Junction (having spent only 3 months there, it was really a Crewe loco). £1295.
