Dapol's newly tooled range of gorgeous BR Standard Class 3MT 2-6-2T locomotives in O Gauge, released under the Lionheart Trains brand, have now arrived into stock!
A total of eight models are available to order now catering for a range of BR black and BR green colour schemes. Many of these are available either numbered or unnumbered - so you can customise them to produce whichever locomotive you desire!
All DCC ready, DCC fitted and DCC Sound fitted models are in stock now and available to order!
Explore the Range
Product Features
Highly detailed model with many separately fitted parts including handrails, doors, safety valve, whistle, pipework, lamp irons, sanding gear and much more
Full back head detail with reversing wheel in ABS
Wire handrails with stanchions in metal
Working cab doors
Easily removeable cab roof (for adding a crew) by means of small magnets
5 pole skew wound precision motor with all wheel pickups
Flickering firebox glow effect
Die cast metal body and chassis
Die cast wheels which are tapered from the rim inwards on both sides as per the prototype, with steel tyres
Die cast pivoted coupling and connecting rods, plated then blackened
Brake shoes in ABS plastic
Sprung centre driving wheel and pony trucks
Fully working prototypical Walschaerts valve gear
Sprung metal buffers and screw link couplings
Prototype Information
The BR Standard Class 3 2-6-2T was a class of steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for British Railways. It was essentially a hybrid design, the chassis being closely based on and sharing a number of parts with the LMS Ivatt Class 4, and having a boiler derived from a GWR No.2 boiler as fitted to the GWR Large Prairie 2-6-2T and 5600 Class 0-6-2T tank engines.
The design and construction took place at the ex-GWR Swindon Works, along with the 2-6-0 tender engine version of the class and a number of other BR Standard Classes, the chassis design used a number of LMS-designed components including Brake Hanger Brackets, Flexible Stretcher Brackets and Reversing Shaft Brackets.
Into service, they were based on the Western, Southern, North Eastern and London Midland Region. The class had a short life as most of the work that they had been built for soon disappeared alongside the branch lines and the introduction of DMU services on shorter routes. The shortest lived was 82043, only 8 years 8 months old at withdrawal; the longest lived was 82019, two months short of its fifteenth birthday. The class’s design lifespan, however, was intended for 40 years.
None of the locomotives survived into preservation. The 82045 Steam Locomotive Trust are in the process of constructing a new locomotive from the ground up which is progressing well, and have been most helpful supplying photographs of these versatile engines.