These models will have identical specification as the previous Lionheart versions and will feature:
Die cast chassis, footplate, boiler and Firebox
Powerful 5 pole motor
Exquisitely detailed body with many added detailed parts
Sprung buffers
Expertly applied livery
DCC Ready with a 21 pin decoder socket
Sound and DCC Versions offered
Completed in November 1934 6412 was sent new to Swansea Landore shed, where the locomotive appears to have remained allocated through GWR ownership, not moving on until going to Newport Ebbw Junction shed in September 1956. The introduction of DMUs displaced small steam locomotives, with the better engines being sent to cover remaining duties elsewhere. 6412 is among several of the class to work from Exeter Exmouth Junction, a former Southern shed, moving there in July 1963 before transfer to Yeovil Town in November to work the connecting shuttle service between the former GWR and Southern stations serving that town. A final move came in August 1964 to Gloucester Horton Road shed to work Gloucester branches and Stroud line 'Chalford auto' services until 6412 was withdrawn from BR service in November.
6412 entered preservation direct from British Railways service, joining the collection of engines and coaches being gathered at Totnes for the re-opening of the Ashburton branch as the South Devon / Dart Valley Railway in 1969. 6412 was later sold to the embryonic West Somerset Railway, moving by rail from Buckfastleigh to Minehead for the re-opening of the Minehead branch in 1976. Following TV appearances as the Flockton Flyer and two major overhauls on the steadily growing WSR 6412 was becoming too small an engine to be extensively utilised. Needing another overhaul to obtain a new 10-year boiler certificate 6412 was sold back to the South Devon Railway, returning to Buckfastleigh shed in 2009.
6412 has now delivered more years of service on heritage railways than under GWR/BR ownership, returning to steam in 2015.