Our newly tooled Graham Farish LMS Stanier 8F No. 8035 certainly looks striking in its LMS Black (Revised) livery. Featuring a powerful loco-drive mechanism using a coreless motor and in the tender you will find a NEXT18 DCC decoder socket along with a pre-fitted speaker making it easy for sound to be added too. NEM coupling pockets are fitted to the front and rear, and fine detailing can be found across the model - from the metal handrails to the cylinder drain cocks, brake blocks and turned-metal safety valves. Inside the cab is a wealth of detail, whilst a hinged fall-plate is fitted between the locomotive and tender ready to accommodate a suitable crew from the Scenecraft figure range, we think the Steam Locomotive Staff (379-307) are ideal!

MODEL FEATURES:

• Graham Farish N Scale
• Era 3
• Pristine LMS Black (Revised) livery
• Loco-drive Mechanism
• Tender Pick-up
• Coreless Motor
• Accessory Pack
• NEM Coupling Pockets
• NEXT18 DCC decoder socket
• Recommended for use with Decoder 36-567
• Sugar Cube Speaker Fitted
• Length 140mm (over couplings)

HISTORY The London Midland and Scottish Railway's 8F class 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotive is a class of steam locomotive designed for hauling heavy freight. 852 were built between 1935 and 1946 (not all to LMS order), as a freight version of William Stanier's successful Black Five, and the class saw extensive service overseas during and after the Second World War. The type was extremely successful at doing what it was designed for, it was long-lived - to the end of British Rail steam in August 1968, and extremely widely travelled across the Midlands and Northern England into Scottish region and parts of Wales. The 8F design incorporated the two-cylinder arrangement of the Black Fives. They were initially classified 7F, but this was later changed to the more familiar 8F. On the outbreak of the Second World War, the design was chosen to become the country's standard freight design, ...