Union Mills Gallery

The Union Mills Gallery

Review of ex-LNWR G2 by Richard Bardsley (full review can be seen in Journal 1/05)
Union Mills take their locomotives very seriously and have kindly supplied a sample to the Society for review, an ex-LNWR Class G2 0-8-0. I cannot comment on the accuracy of the chosen prototype but the model is well finished with a very nice matt black paint job and lettering. However, what really matters is how it runs. My layout is a small oval with 12 inch radius curves and three feet between them (no gradients). The loco performed straight from the off with a small load of ten open wagons of old / new Farish, Peco and various kits. I steadily added wagons 10 at a time and there was no problem. I stopped at 55 as I had run out of wagons! The length of the train was such that much of it was on corners at one time (corners generate more resistance in a train). The loco continued to run at a scale speed of about 20mph though it was quite happy to go a lot faster when asked to.

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