GRACE WITH PACE GRESLEY’S INCOMPARABLE V2s
THE Gresley V2s were among the most perfectly-proportioned steam locomotives ever built. Their timely introduction in 1936 provided the LNER with a fast and powerful three-cylinder mixed-traffic class which, within a few short years, would be playing a vital wartime role by moving literally anything that could be asked of them – including on at least one occasion an empty coaching stock train of no fewer than 26 coaches!
The good news for OO-gauge enthusiasts is that, just before Christmas, the partnership between Locomotion Models and Rails of Sheffield announced the commissioning of four special V2 models from Bachmann Europe plc, including two models of Green Arrow itself for Locomotion Models. The other two, of LNER-liveried No. 4843 and BR-liveried No. 60964, are being produced for Rails of Sheffield and had Durham and Yorkshire connections.
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