O GAUGE GCR 4-6-0 CLASS B2 / B19 CITY OF LINCOLN. Also known as a "SAM FAY"

Great Central Railway Class B2 (Sam Fay)
[4-6-0] No. 424 'City of Lincoln'

Background

Classified as B2 by the LNER, they were reclassified as B19 in 1945 to make room for the Thompson B2 class. The first locomotive, No. 423, was named "Sir Sam Fay" after the Great Central Railway's General Manager, and the class would often be referred to as 'Sir Sam Fays'.

B2 Class 4-6-0 No 424 built at Gorton in January 1913, becoming LNER no. 5424. Allocated new to Gorton, it was sent appropriately to Lincoln in 1936 but moved again in 1942 to Immingham from where it was finally withdrawn in November 1945.

Dad's Model 
Thankfully I still own this model which was built by my late father Geoff Tyler a very experienced modeller across a variety of scales but spent many happy years creating excellent replica's in miniature in 7mm/O Gauge. Very sadly I don't have the exact details of the kit used, build notes, I really wish I had more information on some of his work. Reseach suggests that both Gladiator Models and Leinster produce O gauge (7mm scale) kits of the B2 'Sir Sam Fay' class, and I would suspect that Dad would have used Gladiator kits as I know that he did others in their range. At least I still have some of his excellent models and able to run them when I can at the Open Days at Hillingdon Railway Modellers. 

Pictures so far not doing it justice so one day in the not too distant future we hope it will be possible to get out and give it a test run at the next available open day, sadly these have not been possible for obvious reasons but as soon as we can we shall get out and take some much better pictures. There will be opportunities at the next available open day at the Hillingdon Railway Modellers club of which Dad was a member so will take this along for a run around their test track and make sure i can update a few pictures of it in action. 

In the meantime I'll leave you with these few.

Seen here on the Hillingdon Railway Modellers O Gauge Test Track