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Following on from the Paddington query, I seem to have some vague recollection that there was a similar, operating, large-scale model steam loco in a glass case somewhere on Broad Street station in the mid-'60s. Can anyone confirm?

StevieG wrote:Following on from the Paddington query, I seem to have some vague recollection that there was a similar, operating, large-scale model steam loco in a glass case somewhere on Broad Street station in the mid-'60s. Can anyone confirm?

Yes, it's mentioned in several books I have about the NLL.
It now resides in the NRM at York and was at the top of the stairs into the Search Engine when I last saw it.

Brian

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I can remember the loco on the Broad Street concourse from visits in the 1950s. Thanks for reminding me. I'm pretty sure it was an NLR 4-4-0T, but could be wrong. Insert a penny and the wheels went round.

Kudu

That sounds right, kudu.
Glad to learn that that bit of my memory is functioning okay.
Thanks to all.

I've just come across the following passage in "North London Railway - A Pictorial Record" NRM/Science Museum/HMSO 1979:

"The last surviving NLR 4-4-0T, No 6. of 1894, was set aside ... in 1928 for preservation but was cut up four years later. However, we still have a very good idea of how these locomotives appeared, because a one-eighth scale model of No. 60 was constructed at Bow Works in 1889, at a cost of at least £1000 for display at the Paris Exhibition of that year. For many years subsequently it was displayed at Broad Street station where it was actuated by a 'coin in the slot'. It can now be seen in the [NRM], and is probably one of the most authentic locomotive models ever made."

Confirms what was said above, and adds a few details.

Kudu

Sounds good, Kudu. You're having better luck than I with the ex-Paddington King model.

G'Day Gents

Yep! the old LMS sure looked after it's heritage locomotives, in a big way surprised the model didn't go the same way, it's another bucketful of scrap, to some people.

manna