Hornby BR Royal Scot Class 4-6-0, 46165 The Ranger Era 5 Model Train

Hornby BR Royal Scot Class 4-6-0, 46165 The Ranger Era 5 Model Train

By 1926, faced with a stock book of outdated and unsuitable mainline locomotive traction, the London Midland Scottish Railway had an urgent need for “provision of an improved and more powerful type of passenger engine for the purpose of avoiding double heading and duplication of certain heavy express passenger main line services”.