Description
BR (ex LNWR) Bowen Cooke class G2A 0-8-0 Super D no. 49008. Very well built from a nickel silver specially ordered David Andrews kit by Martin Wyatt with fully working inside cylinder and valve gear motion. Builders nameplate on the underside of the tender as provenance. Presumably painted and lightly weathered by Martin also. ABC motor and gear unit with current collection on the loco by plunger pickups, and with additional belt and braces collection, probably by wipers, on the tender. The loco chassis has axle compensation on the rear two wheel sets. The tender likewise. The wheels are by Slaters. A lovely model, built with no expense spared.
The real no. 49008 locomotive, was actually the original Webb “A” class compound no. 50, built in 1893, going through rebuilds to “D” class, “G1” class before finally being rebuilt to “G2A” in 1943.
