2848 Arsenal please Dapol :-D

[Southernlad86]

LNER B17/6 footballers well in this case local team to me Arsenal could it be possible to release this in LNER green ? the reason behind this well.

Many years ago when I used to go to the footy with my late mother who was a life long goner fan my mother told me that in the arsenal museum they had a locomotive named after the team or its name plate not sure if its actually there or some where if its still around I did ponder at renaming a B17 to Arsenal but alas no one dose the said name plates there are of course many B17's that were named after football teams its just something I'd like to see. Yes I'm stepping out of my Southern zone but I do like the LNER & others if this is at all possible Dapol that be great but I'm sure other members might have a B17 they'd like to see brought out in N thanks

Mark

[RailGooner]

Oh damn. I would have to buy at least 4 - one to run, one to put in a display case, and two to put in the loft to leave for my kids. Think I'm joking? Go on, try me! Please!

[SteveU]

You might like this little video then... Oh and it said in Wikipedia non of them were preserved but the nameplates were presented to the named clubs.

Also a little Wikipedia gives the following list for the other engines, so one version and alternate nameplates and numbers would keep some of the footballing members happy...

LNER #	BR #	NAME	CHANGED NAME	CHANGED NAME
2848	61648	Arsenal
2849	61649	Sheffield United
2850	61650	Grimsby Town
2851	61651	Derby County
2852	61652	Darlington
2853	61653	Huddersfield Town
2854	61654	Sunderland
2855	61655	Middlesbrough
2856	61656	Leeds United
2857	61657	Doncaster Rovers
2858	61658	Newcastle United	(The Essex Regiment from June 1936)
2859	61659	Norwich City	(East Anglian from September 1937)
2860	61660	Hull City
2861	61661	Sheffield Wednesday
2862	61662	Manchester United
2863	61663	Everton
2864	61664	Liverpool
2865	61665	Leicester City
2866	61666	Nottingham Forest
2867	61667	Bradford
2868	61668	Bradford City
2869	61669	Barnsley
2870	61670	Manchester City	(Tottenham Hotspur from May 1937)	(City of London from September 1937)
2871	61671	Manchester City	(Royal Sovereign from April 1946)
2872	61672	West Ham United

[Rowlie]

Thanks for sharing the clip SteveU. I can well believe you RailGooner and the need for heirlooms. Southernlad86, the nameplate was in the entrance hall at Highbury above the office window, have to say I paid more attention to it than the bust of Herbert Chapman 😳. Hopefully it is still on display in the emirates, The Hornby model of the B17 came with self adhesive cab panels and nameplates, you can get Arsenal nameplates from the N gauge society.

[Joel Dapol]

Great Footage, thank you for posting. We may look at some B17's in the next year or two (we still have Liverpool and Manchester City in stock) and are selling off some Evertons in LNER Green we found in the back of the warehouse after the open day in this months specials on our website.

[SteveU]

Have ordered an Everton from the specials having seen it at the open day and ummed and ahhhed, having already bought my 'quota' for the day... Then you put it on the specials! *shakes fist in air... ;-)

[Southernlad86]

The Wait Is Over!

I picked up back at Ally pally a B17 Manchester city for £60 off of Dapol's stall TMC AKA The Model Centre where also in attendance, so I took it over asked them politely about renaming and numbering the loco to 2848 Arsenal they said yes paid my part for it which was only at the time £56 they said it would take a while so left it in there capable hands.

Three weeks later after ally pally I gave them a call on the progress of the model they said the numbers had been done the only thing that would take time is the Name plate which the company they get the other footballer names from oddly don't do Arsenal. I thought strange since you can get other clubs but not Arsenal. So they said it had to be specially made up which would make my loco a rare model indeed in N gauge. it arrived over two weeks ago ran perfectly and chipped easy and now looks a treat on The Model Railway clubs gauge layout Lacey Dale and arrived less then 4 days after Arsnal's FA Cup Victory :-D hopefully these picture will help inspire Dapol for some Arsenal in our lives and some over teams as even the Chairman of our club a goner fan agrees.

[Les1952]

For those wanting to renumber a Footballer those nice Fox people from Leicestershire (aka Fox Transfers) now do nameplates for some of them. They do them in club colours but the footballs are flat rather than in half-relief. They also do headboards for some named trains, which haven't been available before from the N Gauge Society, and rumbers for the cab sides. I find a Faber-Castell Perfection erasing pencil (available from good art shops) and patience will take the old cabside numbers off cleanly. . No better recommendation than a satisfied customer- I have their nameplates on a couple of my A3s and one A4 so far.

The other thing worth noting is that NONE of the B17s lasted long enough for heraldically correct late BR crests. Those receiving a late crest had it facing the chimney on both sides of the tender. The late W.B.Yeadon checked every class member at the scrapyard.