Gordon Highlander and its predecessors?

[Wolseley]

It struck me that the Great North of Scotland Railway's "Gordon Highlander" (F Class) might be a suitable candidate for production.  The GNSR itself is not widely modelled, but the class was long-lived and, with a bit of ingenuity, could be made to represent more than one class of locomotive.

Firstly, a model of the V Class could be made as a GNSR locomotive in lined black (as it was in pre-grouping days), LNER lined black, LNER plain black, British Railways lined black with either "British Railways" or the cycling lion on the tender, and GNSR lined green (as preserved).

Secondly, and here's where it gets interesting, with a modification to shorten the smokebox (about the only difference between the two classes) it could represent the GNSR V Class which, in addition to the above liveries (although none were preserved, the V Class carried GNSR green in pre-grouping days), it could also be marketed in SECR and Southern guise (a nice tie-in with Hornby's H Class) as a batch of the GNSR V Class were sold to the SECR when the GNSR found itself unable to pay the builders for them.

So what about it?  Satisfy Scottish and South of England modellers at the same time.

[LCDR]

Aha! 

 

A chap after my own heart!

 

The SE&CR class 'G'  aka "Herring" would be high up on my shopping list!

[Postman Prat]

Hi LC

 

Weather fine - just right for day-dreams

 

😆

[LCDR]

Perchance!