Build your own 9F – and two Prairie tanks

AN extensive selection of Winson Engineering castings to build a Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 and two GWR 2-6-2T models sold for £5100 at a Lacy Scott & Knight of Bury St Edmunds collectors' models sale on August 20. Included in the lot were boilers, cylinders and associated parts.

Just below the four-figure mark was GWR 2-6-2T No. 6157 made by Lee Marsh Model Co of Fife in O-gauge (£920), and at £780 came a Reeves of Warwickshire 3½in gauge live steam 0-4-0T Tich, followed by two models each at £720.

This pair comprised a 2½in gauge live steam Great Northern Railway Pacific No. 1470 and an O-gauge LMS No. 45126. The GNR model was named Eastern Star rather than Great Northern as carried by the actual locomotive, while the ‘Black 5' was a Ludlows of Bolton reproduction Bassett-Lowke model. Prices quoted exclude buyer's premium of 22½% (+ VAT).