Avontuur railway Walmer branch Bagnall

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Cracking Job +Very useful link!

Post by IRON MAN » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:58 pm

Hi Keith, that looks cracking. And that's a great website for SAR stuff!

Will look forward to your next engine.

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Post by INJIN » Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:28 pm

LnBmad:90849 wrote:What parts of the running chassis were scratch built and what was bought? Am trying to work out the best way for me to build one of my l&b 2-6-2t locos
The frames, spacers, coupling & connecting rods are home made. The cylinders & valve gear apart from the eccentric rods are Roundhouse.
The driving wheels are by Essel Engineering on Roundhouse axles flycranks & bearings.
The front bogie & rear pony truck are homemade & the wheels where out of the bits box.


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Post by 90733 » Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:26 pm

Very, very nice!
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Jack

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Post by JMORG » Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:12 pm

Looks like a really big engine! :) and I love it, I want one!
It's interesting, SAR consider it as a TINY engine! :lol:

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Post by IrishPeter » Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:21 am

They look a bit Calthrop-ish to me. Plenty of axles to spread the weight, and a fairly hefty punch in terms of tractive effort I would imagine.

Peter in AZ
Traffic Pattern? What pattern? Spuds out; grain in, but cattle, sheep and passengers are a lot less predictable.

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Post by INJIN » Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:35 pm

Here is a "VERY" short video taken of the NG4's first running in turn.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ttHrRN ... 8X6xxnTtow


Needs wicking down a little, far to much steam being produced.

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Re: Avontuur railway Walmer branch Bagnall

Post by andrew.giffen3052 » Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:39 pm

It's been quite a while I know. Keith saw the update on Facebook, but I couldn't see this and not post a pic of my scratch built ones, so let's see if this works:
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