R30394 BR Late Thompson Cl A2-3 Watling Street No.60521 Steam LocomotiveThe elegant Thompson Class has arrived at Hornby. This OO gauge locomotive features sprung metal buffers and NEM couplings, and is easily upgraded to HM7000 control by adding a 21 pin decoder (sold seperately). History Of the 15 newly built A2s, only the first, No. 500, emerged from Doncaster under Edward Thompson while he was Chief Mechanical Engineer. That was in May 1946 and, by the end of the following month, Thompson had retired aged 65. The