S&D 1532 Class

I recently acquired this little beauty through the Bachmann Collectors Club website and, I think you will agree, she is quite stunning.

She is a Midland Region 1532 Class 0-4-4T, Nº 54, in S&DJR lined Prussian Blue, Catalogue Nº 31-740K and she only became available at the end of last year but has already sold out completely.

This loco also comes with factory-fitted sound, although Bachmann also produced non-DCC versions.

She does sound as good as she looks, too, and is a great addition to our fleet of S&D locos, most of which are in this gorgeous Prussian blue livery.
 

Only 65 of these smart little locos were built at Derby Works, between 1881 and 1886 to a design by Samuel W Johnson and they were given the power classification 1P.

All except three of the class were handed to the London Midland and Scottish Railway in the 1923 Grouping. Two of the three exceptions had already been withdrawn by then while the third, the big sister of our model here, had been transferred to the S&D in January 1921. 

It subsequently passed to the LMS when the S&DJR rolling stock was absorbed in January 1930.