Current and Proposed New-Builds

Oooh...... "Midget"....... any chance you could PM me a scan.... pretty please?

 

worse than I thought then!

 

oh the possibilities!

 

With a bit of a liking for the Southern too!

 

Its nearly as good as that Cork coal gantry thing! That looked like something off Scrapheap Challenge!!

 

"Pat" truly was something you couldn't make up! I'm sure if someone went bonkers enough and actually recreated it, Whitehead or Downpatrick would be only too happy to give it a home!

 

We have one at Havenstreet, not sure exactly where it is at the moment. Probably about as useful as Midget in the previous post.

 

It's a G6 boiler, I think the meteoric D9 group bought it but are now considering new build in the correct pattern(not sure?). The G6 was widely used, this is claimed to be '50' off M&GN 4-4-0 Number 50, but this is very not definite at all, the M&GN used a few on a badly designed reboilering scheme where the drivers couldn't hold the regulator and look out the cab at the same time, there was Number 50 LTSR 0-6-0 with the Ottoman Railway Mosque style cab windows, and some 600 variously used on 2F 0-6-0, 0-4-4T, 2-4-0 both double and single frames, all ex Midland, but never their 4-4-0s. Seem to recall its exactly the same as a Jinty boiler but 6" longer. Perhaps the MRC letting go of its demic Jinty is the boest way to go here- but thats as likely as a Frankenmonstering a Castle into a Great Bear( but on it's own The Great Bear now there's a new build!)
The T1 boiler was said to be in poor condition and is at a railway which isn't likely to ever get round to do anything with it, save dump it next to a scrap 4F. Again similar boilers were used on other LSWR type, cant recall exactly 2-4-0s and 0-6-0s seem to recall a thread.

 

I thought it was to show that gricers were not all jingoistic by naming it after an English naval defeat.

 

There are a couple of nice Kitson 2-8-2Ts in Aus, which look to be tank engine versions of the Robinson 8K. Here's one of them: http://www.australiansteam.com/nswind/jab9.jpg

 

Rosedale, I started a thread about them earlier!

Technically, isn't the Wickham trolley powered by a motorbike V-twin?

 

GWR4707, some diesel idiot whinging about 32424 being a "Frankenmonster" for using a 'butchered' GNR boiler...

 

And the beautiful Johnson spinner.

 

Ah good, I'm glad it wasn't just me, then.... !

One for A1SLT after the V3. In!

 

Dan, that's because his daughter Marjorie became Mrs Bulleid... the Ivatts moved to be nearer the Bulleid family.

 

That would make sense. I knew that his daughter married Oliver Bulleid but not that he'd moved to be closer to them.

 

Imagine the conversations, from one great locomotive engineer...to OVS Bulleid. Best thing he ever did was his Diesels 10201-3 they were pretty good. Not sure about chain driven pacifics, Leaders and turf burners. Still love what they might do to 35011, handsome but unreliable locos aren't so bad in preservation. Would love to see it next to the P2, am suspicious he might have designed the front end on that too.

 

How about a Midland 1116A 0-4-0ST?

 

Or a L&YR Class 8 "Dreadnought" 4-6-0?

 

The 'Dreadnought' certainly comes with the sort of looks to appeal and performance issues to challenge newbuild fans. I hope we've members with good knowledge of the design to provide some insight into these locos.

If it's a 4-6-0 though, I'd still plump for a Highland/Caledonian "River".