Wessie, LNWR, D class 0-8-0 heavy goods loco. (5" gauge)

Overview
Francis Webb's first eight-coupled locomotive first constructed in 1892. Originally fitted with Joy valve gear, and slide-valve cylinders, and a round-top boiler.

The later locomotives produced under Bowen-Cooke and then Beames had piston valves and Belpaire boilers, were classified 'G' by the LNWR and upon addition of superheaters 'Super D' by the LMS.

A once numerous class of over 550 locomotives some of which were in revenue service until 1963 with BR. One has been preserved.

Drawings and castings to produce a very powerful and imposing model are available from Hotspur Designs.

A very detailed construction series authored by the designer Chris Rayward was published in the Engineering in Miniature magazine from September 2006 up till January 2112 and also covered the variations required for the later ‘G’ classes with the piston valves and Belpaire boilers, plus the two tender designs produced by Whale and Bowen-Cooke. The model was called ‘Wessie’ as this was the name given to the class by the North Western men in the steam era.

It should be noted that Chris Rayward (trading as Hotspur Designs) has also produced drawings for, and covered the building of, the 0-8-4 and 0-8-2 tank versions of the locomotive.