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{{Exhibit|Loc=1|MODES=BTNTM.2011.1091|Pic=Duchess_of_Gloucester_6225_Bassett-Lowke.jpg|Text=The Museum's period "Duchess of Gloucester" Coronation-Class loco running on the gauge 0 layout during [[Train Running Day]] }}  
{{Exhibit|Loc=1|MODES=BTNTM.2011.1091|Pic=Duchess_of_Gloucester_6225_Bassett-Lowke.jpg|Text=The Museum's period "Duchess of Gloucester" Coronation-Class loco running on the gauge 0 layout during [[Train Running Day]] }}  
{{Box|Bassett-Lowke_catalogue_1938-39_CSred_front.jpg|Bassett-Lowke catalogue, 1939}}
{{Box|Bassett-Lowke_catalogue_1938-39_CSred_front.jpg|Bassett-Lowke catalogue, 1939|380}}
{{Box|Bassett-Lowke_catalogue_1937-38_streamliners.jpg|Bassett-Lowke gauge 0 catalogue ("Modernity in Modern Locomotives"). "Duchess of Gloucester" is lower right. Note that all three B-L locomotives pictured on this page are on display in the Museum}}
{{Box|Bassett-Lowke_catalogue_1937-38_streamliners.jpg|Bassett-Lowke gauge 0 catalogue ("Modernity in Modern Locomotives"). "Duchess of Gloucester" is lower right. Note that all three B-L locomotives pictured on this page are on display in the Museum|380}}


A maroon and gold-striped [[gauge 0]] model of the [[streamlined]], bullet-nosed [[4-6-2]] "Pacific" [[Coronation Class|Coronation/Duchess class]] [[LMS]] '''"Duchess of Gloucester" locomotive''', running number 6225, designed by Sir William Stainer.  
A maroon and gold-striped [[gauge 0]] model of the [[streamlined]], bullet-nosed [[4-6-2]] "Pacific" [[Coronation Class|Coronation/Duchess class]] [[LMS]] '''"Duchess of Gloucester" locomotive''', running number 6225, designed by Sir William Stainer.  


This model was made by Bassett-Lowke in around ~1939.
This model was made by Bassett-Lowke in around ~1939.
{{BigPic|Duchess_of_Gloucester_6225_Bassett-Lowke.jpg|Bassett-Lowke "Duchess of Gloucester", during one of the museum's [[Train Running Day]]s}}


{{original_loco}}
{{original_loco}}


6225 Duchess of Gloucester was completed in May 1938, and decommissioned in 1964.
6225 Duchess of Gloucester was the first of the second batch of five [[Coronation Class]] locomotives to be built, finished between May and September 1938. Unlike the first batch of five (which were finished in blue and silver), the second batch were red and gold to be a closer match to the company's normal livery, and it was probably assumed that they'd be hauling the new second-generation sets of red-and-gold [[Coronation Scot]] carriages, whose entry into service was confounded by the outbreak of [[World War Two]].
It was the first of the second batch of five Coronation Class locomotives to be built, which were finished between May and September 1938. This batch was followed by a run of non-streamlined locomotives, after which the works produced another batch of streamliners.  
 
6225 was completed in May 1938, and decommissioned in 1964. This batch was followed by a run of non-streamlined locomotives, after which the works produced another batch of streamliners. All streamlining was eventually stripped. 


==See also:==
==See also:==

Revision as of 14:53, 16 March 2014

Exhibit

Duchess of Gloucester locomotive 6225 (Bassett-Lowke)

Duchess of Gloucester 6225 Bassett-Lowke.jpg The Museum's period "Duchess of Gloucester" Coronation-Class loco running on the gauge 0 layout during Train Running Day (i)
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BTNTM.2011.1091
location:

Arch Three , Area 1
1930s Model Railway Layout


Bassett-Lowke catalogue, 1939

Bassett-Lowke catalogue, 1939 [image info]

Bassett-Lowke gauge 0 catalogue ("Modernity in Modern Locomotives"). "Duchess of Gloucester" is lower right. Note that all three B-L locomotives pictured on this page are on display in the Museum

Bassett-Lowke gauge 0 catalogue ("Modernity in Modern Locomotives"). "Duchess of Gloucester" is lower right. Note that all three B-L locomotives pictured on this page are on display in the Museum [image info]


A maroon and gold-striped gauge 0 model of the streamlined, bullet-nosed 4-6-2 "Pacific" Coronation/Duchess class LMS "Duchess of Gloucester" locomotive, running number 6225, designed by Sir William Stainer.

This model was made by Bassett-Lowke in around ~1939.

Bassett-Lowke "Duchess of Gloucester", during one of the museum's Train Running Days


The original locomotive

6225 Duchess of Gloucester was the first of the second batch of five Coronation Class locomotives to be built, finished between May and September 1938. Unlike the first batch of five (which were finished in blue and silver), the second batch were red and gold to be a closer match to the company's normal livery, and it was probably assumed that they'd be hauling the new second-generation sets of red-and-gold Coronation Scot carriages, whose entry into service was confounded by the outbreak of World War Two.

6225 was completed in May 1938, and decommissioned in 1964. This batch was followed by a run of non-streamlined locomotives, after which the works produced another batch of streamliners. All streamlining was eventually stripped.

See also:

External links

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