Lionheart Trains by Dapol have announced plans for a newly tooled range of LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T steam locomotives in O Gauge!
This impressive, fully diecast, model is to be presented in eight different liveries including LMS black, BR black and KWVR crimson. What's more every single version is available to pre-order in unnumbered condition, enabling you to model whichever variation you like. Please be aware these these are being produced to order, so placing a pre-order is essential.
The model is currently at the engineering prototype stage, with artworks currently in production too. We will reveal updates as and when they are provided. The final models are expected to arrive some time during Q4 2025.
Pre-Order Now - Pre-Numbered Models
Pre-Order Now - Unnumbered Models
PLEASE NOTE - These unnumbered models are being produced to order. So pre-ordering is ESSENTIAL if you would like to have one!
Product Features
Full die-cast metal construction
Die-cast wheels with metal tyres
5 pole skew wound precision motor
Sprung driving wheel and pony trucks, live bearing pick-ups
Front and rear pony wheel trucks to operate on a cam system to allow the model to traverse R2 (40.5”radius) curves
Die cast pivoted coupling and connecting rods
Two versions of smokebox door (one with extra brackets for Southern locos
Easily removeable plastic cab roof (for adding a crew) by means of small magnets
Three versions of chimney modeled
Guard irons on frame and later on pony truck
Working cab doors in metal
Wire handrails with stanchions in metal
Sprung metal buffers and screw link couplings
Full back head detail
Coal load in bunker
Flickering firebox glow
Standard and push pull variants also modeled
Prototype Information
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T is a class of light 'mixed-traffic' steam locomotive introduced in 1946.
The LMS had various elderly tank engines and the operating department required a new small class 2 locomotive to replace them. Noting that the Great Western Railway 4500 and 4575 Classes of 2-6-2T ('Prairie') had been successful, George Ivatt designed the new engine type incorporating self-emptying ashpans and rocking grates which were labour-saving devices. The last thirty Crewe-built engines, 41290–41319, were allocated to the Southern Region from new. The rest were London Midland Region engines. Some were also allocated to the Western Region of BR in the 1950s and 1960s such as numbers 41202, 41203 and 41249 which were shedded at Bristol Bath Road in 1959.
They spent their lives mostly on branch line work. The class were withdrawn between 1962 and 1967 and four have survived into preservation.