** Heljan 6120 GWR/BR 61xx Large Prairie GW Unnumbered

Class Profile: This classic C.B. Collett design for the Great Western Railway was a development of the '51XX' general purpose 'Large Prairie'. Boiler pressure was increased to 225Ib sq/ft giving the locomotives the extra power and better acceleration needed to work intensive Thames Valley suburban services from London Paddington towards Reading and Oxford. This class of 70 examples proved to be ideally suited for this work and remained dominant until the arrival of BR suburban DMUs in the late-1950s and early-1960s. Built by: GWR Swindon Works Number built: 70 Number series : 6100-69 Power Classification: 4MT (5MT after 1953) Service Career: 1931-64 Region: GWR / BR Western Region Purpose: Suburban passenger Status in 2018 : 1 preserved Model features: - DCC ready - Sprung buffers - Designed to accept an ESU LokSound V4L decoder