Description
Entering service in March 1905 as the unnamed No. 175, it was given the name Viscount Churchill in 1907 and numbered 2975 in December 1912. In February 1924, the locomotive was renamed Sir Ernest Palmer, but when Baronet Palmer gained peerage in June 1933, it was subsequently renamed Lord Palmer in the October. The locomotive was extensively damaged in an accident while hauling a goods train at Appleford in December 1942 and was finally withdrawn on 30th November 1944 from Bristol Bath Road shed after a creditable 39 years and nine months of service.
Specifications
- Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 25.4
- Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 5.5
- Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.5
- Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge
- Finish: Painted
- Colour: Green
- Gauge: OO
- DCC Status: DCC Ready 21 pin socket
- Operator: GWR
- Designer: GWR
- Livery: GWR Green
- Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2
- Motor: 5 Pole Skew wound
- Number of Parts: 1
- Buffer Type: Sprung Metal Buffers
- Coupling Type: NEM Couplings