LSL95. LMS Stanier Rebuilt 'Royal Scot' 4-6-0 and Tender No. 6170 'British Legion' as a RESTORATION PROJECT. In lined LMS crimson lake livery with insignia in gold shaded black and with shedplate 1B Camden. The loco is from a Gladiator brass kit built by Graham Varley and is paired with a Sancheng LMS brass tender, both painted by Conrad Cooper (signed). Fitted with an MSC 'JH' motor coupled to a heavy duty multi-stage gearbox, Slaters wheels and with excellent cab detail. The model is lightly used but has the following issues. (1) It is an intermittent runner with one pickup on a rear driving wheel not making proper contact. (2) It is shorting in one possibly two places - one in the vicinity of the rear axle and possibly a front bogie wheel is shorting on the chassis on curves. Sold as a NON-RUNNER as a RESTORATION PROJECT. 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 It lasted until December 1962, being withdrawn from Llandudno Junction (having spent only 3 months there, it was really a Crewe loco). RESERVED.
