7S-025-001 O Gauge Class 74xx Pannier 7411 GWR Green JuneOffer2024 Profiled wheels

Profiled wheels

Between 1956 and 1963

Steps were put on the Fireman’s side of the bunker from 6430 onwards and earlier engines brought into line by about 1945

Axle boxes and brake shoes embossed with the word “Gloucester”

In this role the class continued in service until the 1960’s with the final active locomotive being decommissioned on the Hayling Island Line in Hampshire on November 1963

7S-025-001 O Gauge Class 74xx Pannier 7411 GWR Green JuneOffer2024 Profiled wheelsThe 6400 class were introduced in 1932, whilst the 7400 class followed in 1936, with a total of 90 being constructed. All forty of the 6400 class were fitted for auto train working, and with their smaller driving wheels, were intended for the more steeply graded lines of the Welsh valleys and Cornwall, although they became more widespread in later days. All of the 7400 class and the last ten of the 6400 class can be distinguished from the original