The Final Day Collection - LMS 4-6-0 'Seaforth Highlander' Royal Scot Class Limited Edition

Entry into traffic for the class increased from August 1927 and on September 26th, No.6100 Royal Scot embarked on the longest non-stop trip in the world, taking fifteen coaches the 299¼ miles from Euston to Carlisle. In 1930, twenty more locomotives were ordered, this time from the LMS Works at Derby and by 1932 the class was operating improved West Coast services at a greater speed, against heavier loading.

In 1932, William Stanier took over from Fowler as the LMS’s Chief Mechanical Officer and soon set about modifying the Royal Scot class, as they were experiencing a number of running problems that included axle box failures and bogie riding problems. Subsequently, other problems with the boilers, frames and cylinders were experienced and Stanier’s answer was to rebuild the locomotives with a new, tapered 2A boiler, new frames and cylinders, from 1943 onwards. Withdrawal of the class commenced in 1962, with 6100 Royal Scot and accelerated rapidly, being completed by the turn of 19660 with 6115 Scots Guardsman, these also being the sole preserved examples.

6108 Seaforth Highlander, built by North British Locomotives, entered traffic at Crewe North on September 3, 1927 and is the most travelled of the locomotives in this collection, spending spells at Edge Hill, Camden, Polmadie, Perth, and Carlisle Kingmoor, before settling down at Leeds from September 4, 1943, fresh from the fitting of the tapered boiler. On December 31, 1947, 6108 Seaforth Highlander was still allocated to Leeds. 

SUITABLE ROLLING STOCK R4802, R4803, R4804, R4805

Maximum curve   Hornby 2nd radius + / 438mm+