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CL01 Class 498 0-6-0T locomotive
£60.00. Packed Weight 400g
C.R. numbers 498/9,527-538; L.M.S. numbers 16151-16164
Sheded mainly around the central belt of Scotland for working the tightly curved dock and colliery railways inaccessible to the standard Class 782 tanks, these were a long lived prototype first built in 1912 and finally withdrawn in 1962.
EM gauge model of 56161 built by John Brighton and photographed by Andy Neil standing on the turntable of Andy's embryonic model
of Yoker loco shed as it was in the 1950s. The turntable is a 60ft Cowans Sheldon type built from a
Metalsmith kit.
Photograph used by permission.
