5 inch gauge London Transport "Metropolitan" battery-electric

A 5 inch gauge Metropolitan Railway battery electric, built to the Dan Jeavons design, based on the class of twenty locomotives designed by Metropolitan Vickers and delivered in 1922/23 - at that time the most powerful locomotives to work on the underground.

We've always liked these - a supremely elegant, Edwardian design with much of the aura of a coach-built vintage car about it!

Bogies are fitted with two motors each, powered by a pair of batteries with Parkside controller.

In running order, complete with a pair of batteries. There is a horn fitted; running lights at either end something of a curate's egg with some working, some not.