The East Coast Model Railway

This magnificent photograph, from Dr David Turner, "Promoting the main line with models", shows a Gauge 2 electric LNWR 'Experiment' heading a train of wood construction coaches on the model West Coast layout built by Bassett Lowke for the LNWR Company in 1908. A similar layout was built for the East Coast Companies, also in Gauge 2.

A locomotive similar to this one survives in Adam Goodyear's collection and ran successfully at the G1MRA 75th anniversary show at Bicester, UK.

Here's Greenlys description in 1909

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Here's a view of the East Coast exhibit showing the three 'Atlantics' specially built by B-L for the model:

These models were described in B-L's 1911 catalogue