Hornby BR Early Class J52 0-6-0ST 68873
Product Code: R30367
(Pre-Order Due December 2025)
Production Details:
No. 68873 was built in 1905 at Doncaster Works and
entered service with the Great Northern Railway as its No. 1274,
initially allocated locally at Doncaster goods yard. After becoming LNER
No. 4274 in 1924, it was later renumbered as 8873 and made it into BR
service in 1948 as No. 68873. It’s allocations also included King’s
Cross, Hornsey and Colwick, before being condemned in September 1955.
The model is finished in plain black with BR early ‘cycling lion’ crest
as applied in the 1950s, with the five-digit number on the
increased-capacity bunker sides. The locomotive also has the later-type
safety valves and steam injectors. Technical Specification: ● Item Length:
12.5 x Height 4.7 x Width: 3.6, ● Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge, ● DCC
Status: DCC Ready 21 pin socket, ● Operator: BR, ● Designer Henry Ivatt,
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Wheel Configuration: 0-6-0, ● Livery: BR Black, ● Minimum Curve (mm):
Radius 2, ● Motor: 5 Pole Skew wound, ● Class: Class J52, ● Buffer Type:
Metal Sprung Buffers, ● Coupling Type: NEM Couplings.
