After the "GWR question", LMS(?) Broad Street Question

[StevieG]

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?

[BHornsey]

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

[Mickey]

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[kudu]

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

[StevieG]

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

[kudu]

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

[giner]

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

[manna]

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