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Present day
294.49
This is a remarkable model; remarkable, innovative and simply outstanding. It's probably the first time that a model loco has appeared before its prototype was in service since Hornby Dublo first produced its Co-Co diesel (a ‘sort of ’ all-green ‘Deltic'), but that's the only similarity.
The first of Gresley's P2 Class appeared in 1934 in the form of No. 2001 , instantly becoming the largest and most-powerful express passenger steamup at York and New England, unloved and under-utilised, suffering early withdrawal.
