LJSW09. GWR ex- Midland & South Western Junction Railway 2-4-0 & Tender No. 1336. In plain GWR green livery with lettering in gold shaded red as running pre- 1934. This is handbuilt by John Petcher (with his maker's plate on the underside of the tender), and painted by Alan Brackenborough. Fitted with fully working inside motion, sprung hornblocks on the leading driving axle, Slaters driving wheels with turned steel wheels on the leading loco axle and the tender, a Portescap motor/gearbox, and with excellent cab detail and crew. The model is lightly used. The prototype was originally built by Dübs & Company of Glasgow in 1894 for the Midland & South Western Junction Railway as their No. 12, it passed into GWR ownership during the grouping of 1923 along with sister locos Nos. 10 and 11 . The three (Nos. 10 - 12) became GWR Nos. 1334, 1335 and 1336. They were reboilered with Belpaire boilers by the GWR and then served on the former Didcot, Newbury & Southampton line running passenger and mail trains. No. 1336 was the last of the three giving 60 years of service and it was withdrawn from Reading in March 1954 (Nos. 1334 and 1335 having been withdrawn in 1952). There is a well known photo by J F Russell-Smith (available online) of No. 1336 hauling the daily pickup goods along the Lambourn Valley line in 1947. RESERVED.
