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In view of your comments in last month’s editorial about projects without wheels (For those who didn’t see the issue, I commented that we seem to get a majority of articles on rail-based models, some on road models, but those on stationary engines seem to have dried up and I wondered if they still held their popularity among builders – Ed). I think that they are out there and I enclose a photo of one of my efforts, not too far from completion for a marine compound engine, with scotch boiler with Ingolfield modification and a condensing arrangement as well. The air pump remains to be constructed. The plant is intended for a model of the ‘Boadicea’, a gentleman’s yacht built by J Elders of Glasgow in around 1875, a…

Part Three of Three In the previous two articles I described how I created a Southern Railway locomotive in model form that never materialized in reality, what would have been a more practical and predictable alternative to Bulleid’s over ambitious ‘Leader’ project. The interruption of Covid resulted in my 0-6-4 Q1 tank seeing very little use on the track, so having sold one of my two 0-6-0 Q1 tender engines I decided that perhaps another tender engine would be a more practical machine after all! The additional weight and size of the tank loco made it less easy to manoeuvre and transport, while the additional water tank and less-accessible cab controls added to the argument. Early in 2023 I took the hacksaw to the loco and started to rebuild it…

Designing a brand-new steam locomotive, as opposed to replicating a classic design, is quire a challenge, especially if one is creating an engine that will be expected to ‘pull its weight’ on an anything-but-easy line. So what does it take to come up with the right design? To try and find out back at the end of April EIM took a trip to the Forest of Dean and the first day of the Perrygrove Railway’s Gala – we were there was because this was a very special day, the unveiling of a brand-new locomotive built especially for the 15-inch gauge line. Now for those readers who don’t know the Perrygrove, it was opened in 1996 by then owners Michael and Frances Crofts, and while it is marketed as a family…

The controversial HS2 rail project is providing funding to turn a locomotive on a 12-inch gauge line into more environmentallyfriendly motive power. A grant of £75,000 from the HS2 Community & Environment Fund is allowing the Ruislip Lido Railway in northwest London to convert Bo-bo diesel ‘Graham Alexander’, built in 1990 by Severn Lamb and currently fitted with a 4.5-litre Perkins diesel engine, to run on low-carbon battery power. The work, part of a programme by the Rusilip Lido Railway Society to reduce local noise pollution and remove CO₂ emissions, is being carried out by renowned railway engineering specialist Alan Keef Ltd at its works near Ross-on-Wye, Wales. According to the RLR’s Matthew Thomas there are hopes that the rebuilt Graham Alexander, pictured at left in Alan Keef ’s workshops,…

No two ways about it, David Maidment is one prolific author, seeming to have a firm ambition to create a complete detailed reference library of British locomotive types. Having reviewed his title on the humble Great Western four-coupled tank in the August issue, this time we are presented with something much grander in the iconic Princess Coronation Pacifics of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway – powerful in their normal form, oh so distinctive with their streamlining which firmly ‘outcurved’ the rival A4 locos of the London, North Eastern Railway. The book covers the first half of these locos’ history (the author is preparing a second volume covering their final years and preservation), and maintains the style and standard of previous volumes with the usual extensive research on the subject.…

Having just completed my fourth steam engine I was looking for something a bit different for my next project. I had admired many items of rolling stock at exhibitions, and indeed at some private railways. The standard of detail on the bodywork and interior was always exceptional, but the detail below the running board was not always as good. As someone who had spent the first 14 years of my working life in railway carriage works (firstly at Derby, then later at Wolverton) I found this disappointing and a little irritating. So – the project was born. It would have to be a railway coach with full brake work and working bolsters on the bogies, and underframe detail. Preservation inspiration Which prototype to choose? I have been a member of…

In 2006 when the Brambles Light Railway was laid across the back lawn, in front of the workshop, we needed an embankment to avoid a gradient of about 1 in 40. The 5-inch gauge line was staked out to 1 in 100, with our existing but now unused shed base as a reference point – we didn’t fancy breaking up several tons of concrete! We needed a cutting two feet deep in the front garden, and an embankment at about a foot high at its peak across half the back lawn. But unfortunately by building the embankment we unwittingly created a dam, behind which a large body of water would collect during heavy rain. So effective was this piece of water retention that the lawn in the area never dried…

This is a new feature to EIM – the website Youtube, which encourages users to upload video clips of just about anything, is a rich source of widely varied model engineering content, but can be overwhelming to the first-time user. So each month we will be pointing readers at some clips they may find of interest. If you have seen something on Youtube that you think other readers might enjoy, then send in the link to editor@engineeringinminiature.co.uk ■ Lawrie’s Mechanical Marvels is a well-known part of the online community and features many a miniature line. In this clip from the Bentley Miniature Railway Gala, held on the Sussex 7¼ -inch gauge line at the end of August and featuring some 14 locomotives in action, Lawrie tries using a drone to…