04 July 2025
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Bachmann has shared images of livery samples for its hotly-anticipated T3, joining the EFE Rail range in OO.
The first five models span LSWR operations and the SR years, alongside a model of the preserved locomotive, which is depicted in its current form.
Both the locomotive group and the South Western Circle have aided the development of the new EFE Rail model, which has been designed to portray each of the T3s at various points in their working lives, capturing the numerous changes that the real locomotives underwent as their careers progressed.
Available models
- LSWR Adams T3 561 LSWR Adams Green (E85019)
- LSWR Adams T3 564 LSWR Urie Green (E85023)
- LSWR Adams T3 560 SR Lined Maunsell Green (E85024)
- LSWR Adams T3 558 SR Lined Maunsell Green (E85025)
- LSWR Adams T3 563 LSWR Drummond Green (E85030)
These livery samples are now under review and improvements and refinements will be made where necessary and incorporated into the production versions. As is often the case with samples like these, the fit and finish of parts will also be improved in production, and the process of providing feedback to the factory has already commenced.
If you want to be the owner of one of these models, you will need to be quick, the order book for our new T3 closes on Wednesday 16th July 2025! Expected to arrive in the autumn, the new model is priced at £199.95.
About the locomotive
The London & South Western Railway (LSWR) T3 Class was part of a family of four 4-4-0 locomotives. The first T3 was built in 1892 and by the end of 1893, the twenty-strong fleet had been completed.
The elegant appearance of the T3 carried many hallmarks of a locomotive designed by William Adams, with long frames extending beyond the smokebox and stovepipe chimneys. Their Victorian splendour was only enhanced by the vibrant and ornate liveries that the LSWR, and later the Southern Railway (SR), adorned them with during their working lives, which extended to half a century or more for some members of the class.
Today, the sole-surviving T3 is No. 563, which can be found operating at the Swanage Railway thanks to the Swanage Railway Trust 563 Locomotive Group, who restored the locomotive and returned it to steam in 2023.
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