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5 inch gauge LNER B1 - stock code 9681

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5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
5 inch gauge LNER B1
A 5 inch gauge LNER B1 to Martin Evans' "Springbok" design. Completed forty years ago and unsteamed from new, it's spent the last thirty years sitting on a hall table in a rectory in Suffolk.

A well built engine, machining and platework are all to a high standard, fit and finish of the motionwork and valve gear is good. The engine runs well in both directions, there's some video of it running on air outside the works here.

Paintwork remains bright, in good condition.

The boiler is well made with neatly flanged plates and good solder penetration. It has had a hydraulic test - structurally sound and dry throughout bar a single pinhole leak at the inner dome which will require repair.

gauge 5 inch
length/inches 401/2 +25
width/inches 10 1/2
height/inches 14
wheel material cast iron
axlebox type plain bearing
cylinder material gunmetal
valve type piston
valve gear Walschaerts
reverser type screw
lubricator type mechanical
injector(s) 2
boiler number DB
year built unknown
boiler maker unknown
working pressure/psi 80
boiler type locomotive
boiler material copper
boiler construction silver soldered
superheater(s) 4
superheater type flue tube
fusible plug no
safety valve(s) 2
safety valve type spring
mechanical pump 1
hand pump 1
whistle yes