Hornby LMS Stanier 5MT Black 5 5047
Product Code: R30274
Production Details:
Hornby LMS Stanier 5MT Black 5 5047. Known as ‘Black
Fives’, or in Scotland as ‘Hikers’, Stanier’s 5MT 4-6-0s were one of the
most numerous classes of locomotives built in the UK, with 842 examples
built at a variety of locations, including the railway’s own works at
Crewe, Derby and Horwich, plus private builders Vulcan Foundry and
Armstrong Whitworth, the latter building by far the most with 327
machines. No. 5047 was built at Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows in
1935 with a domeless boiler and spent most of its career in Scotland. It
was withdrawn from St. Margaret’s shed, Edinburgh in July 1966 as BR No.
45047.
Features: DCC Status: DCC Ready 21
pin socket, Operator: LMS, Designer: Stanier, Livery: LMS Black, Minimum
Curve (mm): Radius 2, Motor: 5 Pole Skew wound, Buffer Type: Sprung
Metal Buffers, Coupling Type: NEM Couplings.
