Corgi Rail Legends:Flying Scotsman 50th Special

Product Description

Rail Legends, is a superbly detailed collection of static die-cast locomotives marking the golden age of British steam. Each model comes with a rail track effect plinth & clear plastic presentation case from which the locomotive can be detached.

After almost forty years in service for the GNR, LNER & British Railways, ' Flying Scotsman' retired from main-line service in 1963. By 1964 all fifty-eight A3 Class locomotives had been retired from service with BR, ' Flying Scotsman' No.60103 being the only one to have been saved for preservation by Alan Pedger, a businessman from Nottinghamshire. Pedger had seen ' Flying Scotsman' at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924, this left a lasting memory as just under forty years later he saved ' Flying Scotsman' from the fate of the scrapyard when he purchased it from British Railways for the sum of £3, 000.

As part of the deal with BR, Pedger agreed to restore ' Flying Scotsman' to its LNER livery of Apple Green carrying its LNER-era numbering of 4472. On the 26th March 1963 ' Flying Scotsman' emerged from the Doncaster Works in its newly painted LNER livery with a single chimney with the smoke deflectors removed & paired with a corridor type tender taken from the withdrawn A4 Class No.60034 ' Lord Faringdon'.

Product Dimensions:
Scale: 1:120 Length: 180mm