Hornby BR Class 264 'Pug' 0-4-0ST 56025 'Smokey Joe' - Era 4/5

Caledonian Railway Class 264 'Pug' 0-4-0ST BR Black 56025 'Smokey Joe'

Includes

- British Railways Lined Black livery

- Smokey Joe motif on boiler sides.

- Diecast chassis 

- Cab detail

- Large fixed tension lock couplings.

- NO DCC Socket

  NOTE: (this model has no socket for DCC decoders. However a decoder can be 'Hardwired' into the model with great care).

Please ask for further advice or if you would like us to install a decoder for you.

- OO Scale

Locomotive information:

Built in Scotland during the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras, these small 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives were mainly used as shunting engines in railway works yards around Glasgow, although they could be used for light passenger services as well.

Known as 'Pugs', it was not uncommon to see these diminutive locomotives operating with a small wagon that acted as a coal tender.

The Caledonian Railway class 264 Pug, was a class of 0-4-0 saddle tanks built between 1885 and 1905. Designed by and first built under Dugald Drummond, later examples were built by John F. McIntosh.  A total of 34 were built and lived very long lives, lasting from thr Pre-grouping era, all the way to British Railways days in the 1960s. Some of the class had 'makes-shift' tenders in tow giving more coal capacity for longer shunting journeys.

The design was taken further with the CR class 262 0-4-2 Saddle tank, nicknamed 'Killin tank' for working the Killin branch in Scotland. Another developement was a larger CR class 323 0-6-0 Saddle tank, nick-named "Jubilee".

The 264 class survived into British Railways days, with a particular example 56025 (Smokey Joe), kept in immaculate condition as a works pilot locomotive. None of the class survived into preservation.

However an almost identical class of locomotives design by Dugald Drummond for the North British Railway in 1882 survives. Under the classification of Y9, these locomotives featured slightly smaller chimneys, window variations and cab sides. Locomotive 68095 is preserved at the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway museum, Scotland.

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