While we patiently wait for Bachmann’s OO9 Quarry Hunslets to arrive (which won’t be long now), the staff sprung a surprise upon us in the Winter 2022 British Railway Announcements, showing a completed model of the Penhryn Quarry ‘Mainline’ 0-4-0 Hunslet tanks. We received the review sample the next day and stock will arrive in shops within a matter of weeks.
The story of these particular locomotives starts with , named after the son of the second Baron Penrhyn, built was a success and later joined in 1893 by to broadly the same design, named after the wife and daughter respectively of the third Baron Penrhyn.
