This Class N15 model was introduced to Hornby's range by popular request last year and so popular has it been that already 11 versions of it have been made with a twelfth one on its way. This must break all records in terms of the speed with which the range of variations of a steam locomotive model has grown.
Illustrated here are the two latest ones. Popularly known as 'King
Arthurs' after the legend and book from which the locomotives were later named by the
Southern Railway, the class was started by the LSWR in 1918 and batches were produced
until 1926. This created four subclasses.
The model of 751 Etarre (R2723) is in early Southern livery which was based on the revised LSWR livery that Urie introduced to the LSWR during the First World War. Etarre was one of the early locomotives built by Urie at the Eastleigh works. It shows some of the later modifications the locomotive underwent including the improved chimney and fitting of smoke deflectors (both in 1928). In this livery, and with visible modifications, the model shows the locomotive as it was sometime between October 1931 and January 1939.
30450 Sir Kay (R2725) is based on a Maunsell Class N15 built at Eastleigh but incorporating some of Maunsells modifications to improve the usefulness of the class for express passenger work. It entered traffic on 1st June 1925. The model shows the locomotive as it would have looked sometime between October 1958 and March 1960, the month it was withdrawn from service ready for the scrapyard.
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