Here come the 'Black 5's - our latest addition to the TT:120 steam locomotive family. Featuring the expertly researched and highly accurate CAD from its OO gauge cousin, this BR Stanier 5MT is pre-Sound Fitted. This LMS mixed-traffic workhorse is sure to make an impression on any TT:120 layout, depicting No.45446 in British Railways Lined Black livery, with later ‘Lion and Wheel’ crest on the tender.

Model Specification:

• Highly detailed model based on extensive research and design from the critically acclaimed OO gauge version
• Die-cast boiler and running plate
• Wealth of separately fitted parts, including boiler handrails, steam pipes, whistles, steps, and sanding pipes.
• Detailed cab interior
• Powerful coreless motor providing power to locomotive driving wheels
• Electrical pick-ups on driving wheels and tender wheels
• Brass connector rods and slide bars
• Pivoting NEM coupling sockets
• Accessory pack that includes optional snowplough and decorative coupling hook
• Minimum 2nd radius curves

Electronics:

• Next18 DCC sound decoder fitted is compatible with HM7000 system
• Space for HM7070 Power Bank for uninterrupted running

Sound:

• Utilises same high-fidelity HM7000 sound file present on OO gauge version
• Assembled using live recordings of Black 5 locomotives.
• Tender speaker

Tooling:

• Riveted smokebox door
• No smokebox steam lance
• Rivetted bufferbeam
• Capped top feed
• With AWS
• Welded tender

Livery:

• BR Lined Black with late crest on the tender
• 1960’s style OHWL stickers
• Sir W.G Armstrong Whitworth & Co. LTD builders plate
• Authentic colours and typefaces used
• Gloss finish to locomotive except for cab and smokebox, which are matt.
• Era 5

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History:

One of 327 ‘Black Fives’ to be built by Armstrong Whitworth under contract for the LMS, No. 5446 entered traffic in December 1937. Its BR career as No. 45446 was spent based at Aston (Birmingham), Crewe (both North and South sheds) and Stoke-on-Trent, with withdrawal coming at Crewe South in February 1967, 18 months before the end of steam on BR. 

The Stanier-designed ‘5MTs’ were among the most numerous locomotive classes to be built, with 842 examples completed between 1934 and 1951. The model has the later BR crest on the tender.