LNER Class A4 "SEA EAGLE" - No. 4487 - 7 MODEL SETS

using HORNBY DUBLO 3 rail OO or 00 gauge components.

Locomotive works number 1852, completed at Doncaster on 20 March 1937,

Allocated the running number 4487.
It was named Sea Eagle. It was put into service with a 1928 pattern streamlined tender, which the Hornby Dublo model represents.
The engine was eventually scrapped in 1963 by which time it had become the property of the nationalised British Railways.
During its time on the rails, it received no less than 9 different colour schemes or lettering.
In 1947, the loco was renamed to Walter K Wigham, to honour one of the LNER directors.

I purchased second-hand Hornby Dublo models to complete the sets as described below. Rolling stock is left original, because the lithography of these pieces is a printing process, and impossible to replicate. The engines and tenders have been professionally repainted by Mr Tony Winzar to my specification. He commits to finishing models to a similar style to the original toys, and does not pretend to do "scale" or fastidious lining out.

The BR in the table stands for British Railways formed in January 1948.

The garter blue and red colours applied in the early days of the A4s is thought to have been derived from the Orders of Knighthood colouring shown in the image below. If these colours were used for the Coronation of King George VI, they contributed to the duo-tone blue chosen for Sir Nigel Gresley's train "The Coronation", hauled by blue A4 locomotives named for the Commonwealth dominions such as Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand.

Thumbnail	Running Number	Period and depot allocation notes	Name and colour - notes
	LNER 4487	March 1937 to February 1938 Haymarket, Gateshead	Set 1 - Sea Eagle in green with green wheels and valances over the driving wheels
	LNER 4487	February 1938 to November 1941 Haymarket, Gateshead, Kings Cross, Doncaster	Set 2 - Sea Eagle in garter blue with dark red wheels and valances over the driving wheels
	LNER 4487	November 1941 to January 1944	Set 3- Sea Eagle in black with dark red wheels lettered LNER - valances removed, never replaced.
Not painted.	LNER 4487	January 1944 to October 1947	Sea Eagle in black lettered NE
	LNER 28	October 1947 to June 1948	Set 4- Renamed Walter K Wigham in garter blue with red and white lining and dark red wheels
	BR 60028	June 1948 to October 1950 Grantham	Set 5- Walter K Wigham in purple blue with red lining
	BR 60028	October 1950 to February 1952	Set 6 - Walter K Wigham in dark blue with black and white lining
	BR 60028	February 1952 to withdrawal and scrapping after 1963 at Doncaster	Set 7 - Walter K Wigham in Brunswick green with black and orange lining
Not painted.	BR 60028	Sometime in the 1950s, the BR emblem on the tender was changed from the "Forward Lion" to the "Lettered Lion", but the colour and lining scheme remained unchanged.	Walter K Wigham in Brunswick green with black and orange lining

Orders of Knighthood colouring

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