Duchess of Gloucester locomotive 6225 (Bassett-Lowke)

Exhibit
Duchess of Gloucester locomotive 6225 (Bassett-Lowke) The Museum's period "Duchess of Gloucester" Coronation-Class loco running on the gauge 0 layout during Train Running Day (i)
BTNTM.2011.1091
location:
Arch Three , Area 1 1930s Model Railway Layout

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 [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.

The original locomotive

6225 Duchess of Gloucester was completed in May 1938, and decommissioned in 1964. 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.

See also:

• Coronation locomotive (Bassett-Lowke), includes details from B-L's catalogue that apply to both models.

External links

• 6225 Duchess of Gloucester in steam, photograph, 1939 (nationalrailwaymuseum.wordpress.com)
• http://www.locos-in-profile.co.uk/Prints/LMS/Streamliners/LMS_Streamliners.html