Description
LMS 5XP Stanier Jubilee, Nos 5552-5742. David Andrews etched kit with its own chassis with Bruce Hoyle’s castings & Stanier 4000 gallon tender
The kit includes parts for both Short Firebox (vertical throat plate) and later Long Firebox (sloping throat plate) boilers. The sandbox lids LBR66 are omitted (the alternative variant of lid is included). Wheels pin between 6’ 9” 20.25 mm 21 spoke Stanier wheels with bevelled rims and webs on the spokes beside the crankpin – though Jubilees, Patriots and Scots could and did exchange driving wheels so the earlier Fowler pin in line flat rim no web were seen on Jubilees. There is also an intermediate version of the 6’ 9” wheel with a bevelled rim on the pin in line wheel, no webs. The tyre was allowed to wear to 6’ 6¾” before re-tyring. The early Crewe built Short Fire Box 3A boiler Jubilees (5552-6, 5607-5654) had Claughton bogies with 6’ 3” wheelbase (Wheel base bogie 6’ 3”-5’ 10½ ”-7’ 4”+8’ 0”) rather than the Stanier De Glen 6’ 6” bogie, wheel base bogie 6’ 6”-5’ 9”-7’ 4”+8’ 0”. The kit only includes the De Glen bogie. 5735 Comet and 5736 Phoenix were rebuilt to 6P with 2A tapered boilers in 1942. Bogie wheels 3’ 3½” 9.875 mm 10 spoke; there are variants of spoke and boss shape.
Jubilee tenders are very confusing; 5552-6 started with Fowler 3,500 gallon tenders [5 ½ ton] but Stanier 4,000 [9 ton] as built for 5667-5692, or the similar 3,500 gallon tender [7 ton] [available from Worsley Works] as supplied with 5617-5666 later replaced many. 5607-5616 started with the 10 Stanier Fowler hybrid 3,500 gallon tenders [7 ton] [available from Worsley Works] with higher straight sides than the ordinary Fowlers (these were later given to new 4Fs in exchange for new 4,000 gallon tenders). North British built 5557-5606 were delivered with Stanier 4,000 gallon tenders but largely swapped them for Fowler tenders from Royal Scots. All 3 variants of 3,500 gallon tender were 6’ 6” + 6’ 6”, the 4,000 gallon tenders were 7’ 6” + 7’ 6”. 5642 and 5552 exchanged identities when the new 5552 became Silver Jubilee. 45 4Fs built between 1937 and 1941 used ex Jubilee Fowler tenders allowing new Stanier tenders to go to Jubilees. Later some 18 Jubilees lost Stanier tenders to Rebuilt Patriots. The Princesses also got involved in Jubilee tender swaps. Tender wheels 4’ 3” 12.75 mm 12 spoke though some Stanier tenders acquired disc wheels – probably from Brighton and LNER built tenders.
