A scratch-built 3.5'' gauge display model of a London, Tilbu...

Hammer

£700

A scratch-built 3.5'' gauge display model of a London, Tilbury & Southend Railway 1 Class 4-4-2 tank locomotive, unlined olive green livery, painted side-tank name Pitsea and red backed oval bunker number-plate 12, set on a length of track, the base board with brass plaque engraved, The Steam Tank/Locomotive/A model of this engine/based on the London, Tilbury & Southend/Railway 1887, 75cm over buffers The London Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) was served by locomotives of the Great Eastern Railway (GER) under contract until 1880, when the first of 36 of these 1 Class express tank engines with 6ft. driving wheels was introduced. They were designed, it is thought, by the GER's locomotive engineer William Adams on behalf of the LTSR's engineer Thomas Whitelegg (who took the credit for them) and built 1880-1892. They were named after places served by the line, and No. 12, Pitsea was the twelfth locomotive built by Sharp, Stewart & Co., Atlas Works, Manchester in 1880. In 1912, the LTSR was taken over by the Derby-based Midland Railway (MR) and No. 12 thereupon lost its name, was re-classified 1P and re-numbered 2121, which it continued to bear until after amalgamation with the London Midland and Scottish Railway when it became No. 2211. It was renumbered yet again 2088 a few years later and was withdrawn from service in 1930. The last of the class was scrapped in 1936, although later variants remained in service until the 1950s.