GWR William Dean 517 class 0-4-2T no. 548

Mick Bayliss Model for sale, My loco collection
GWR William Dean 517 class 0-4-2T no. 548. This lovely little model has been very well built from the superb Malcolm Mitchell kit with Slaters wheels, an MSC JH motor and gear unit and a representation of inside valve gear and slidebars. Power collection is by plunger pick-ups to driving wheels, tested hauling a “B” set at the Poachers running session last Sunday, she runs very smoothly indeed. When bought, the model was quite good, but carried only a fair rendition of the GWR plain green livery. Now stripped of its original paint and repainted by Warren Haywood in the superb GWR chocolate livery, Warren has improved this little chap to another level. After WWI, some enclosed cab 517’s were painted in this lovely brown livery (they were nicknamed “chocolate soldiers”) to match the livery of autotrailers. Some of the brown 517s are thought to have retained the livery until the mid-1920s.