Steam Locomotive 4-6-0  "Hector" Class 6P LMS

Steam locomotive with tender, no.6140 named “Hector” of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). Wheel arrangement 4-6-0.
An impressive locomotive of the LMS, which appeared in 1927, was the three-cylinder

Class 6P “Royal Scot”. 

By the end of 1927 all fifty units of the first batch were placed in service, and among them also no. 6140, named Hector, after a veteran locomotive of the LNWR. Such name it carried until 1936, when, by renaming all the class locos after Regiments of the British Army, it was renamed "The King's Royal Rifle Corps”.
As it turned out from running experience, the need arose for modifications to help convey the smoke away from the drivers’ view. Therefore different smoke deflectors were tried, on the sides of the smoke box. Good results were obtained with the smoke deflectors, with the top half’s slanted inwards. These modifications, started in the early thirties, were applied to various locomotives, no. 6140 among them.
This model reproduces no. 6140 "Hector", as running in 1935.

Length 23.5cm

Produced in 1980 by Rivarossi