4C90 GWR T8 26ft BRAKE THIRD

Etched brass kit. GWR Diagram T8 In 1887 the G.W.R. built thirteen sets of close coupled four wheelers to the designs of William Holden. They were for the Middle Circle services and had distinctive round topped doors to allow them to run over the Metropolitan Railway. When they were superceded on London suburban workings they spread to branch lines all over the system. Many ended their days in the 1940's in the Welsh Valleys.