This delightful TT:120 scale LB&SCR A1/A1X 0-6-0 Terrier Steam Locomotive model features the highly accurate 2025 tooling suite. A beautiful representation of the ever-popular Class A1, the model perfectly captures the diminutive character of the prototype, and has been designed for smooth and reliable operation, including provision for digital command control via a 6-pin decoder socket. This particular example depicts No.735 in London and South Western Railway Lined Green livery.

Model Specification:

• Based on new 2025 A1/A1X Terrier tooling suite
• Expertly moulded die-cast body and chassis for added realism and weight
• Number of separately fitted parts, including smokebox door, water filler caps, handrails, lamp irons and buffers.
• Brass connector rods with metal securing pins
• Detailed cab interior
• Pivoting NEM sockets for improved coupling around tight curves
• Precision-engineered coreless motor for smooth running
• All-wheel pick-ups
• Accessory pack
• Capable of traversing 1st radius curves, but recommended minimum is 2nd radius.

Electronics:

• 6-Pin DCC Decoder socket compatible with HM7000 system

Tooling:

• Stroudley chimney
• Flush smokebox door
• Four lamp brackets on front and rear
• Low bufferstock with no lamp brackets
• Steam pipes fitted
• Small cab bunker with no coal rails
• Westinghouse pump removed

Livery:

• LSWR Lined Green Livery
• Maroon edging to tank and cab sides
• Era 2

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History:

Fifty of the Stroudley ‘Terriers’ were built between 1872 and 1880 for south London commuter services by the LB&SCR. By 1898, they were already being replaced by bigger locomotives and 23 of the class were withdrawn over the next seven years. Most were sold for further work, including two to the London & South Western Railway for working the Lyme Regis branch. 

No. 735 started life as No. 68 Clapham, moving to the L&SWR in March 1903, but wasn’t a success in Dorset and was soon moved away for other duties. Reboilered in 1911, it was fitted with motor-train gear for use on the three-mile Leigh-on-Solent branch in Hampshire. It was absorbed into SR stock in 1923, to be reunited with its original class members, but was withdrawn in December 1936 and scrapped.