Name: 3 1/2 inch gauge "Hielan Lassie"
Brand: Station Road Steam
SKU: 8141
Price: 4750.0 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

A beautifully made 3 1/2 inch gauge three cylinder LNER Pacific to LBSC's "Hielan Lassie" design, started during the builder's national service and finished, forty years later, in 1986.

The frames were cut in the REME workshops at Abbasia, near Cairo in 1946. The one-piece crankshaft was turned from a solid billet later that year - on an American Reid-Prentice lathe - at Tel-El_Kabir, at that time the largest army workshop in the world, reputedly servicing everything from a watch to a tank!

On demob the engine return to Devon, where it was worked on in between other jobs in the builder's busy workshop. Wheels, chimney and dome castings were all bought from A.J.Reeves - the rest of the locomotive is the work of the builder.

The engine has been maintained in superb condition, with occasional outings pulling friends and their children at a track in Barnstaple. Now, at 93, the builder has decided it is time for a younger man to take over "113".

Complete with the builder's notebooks, fitted boxes for the locomotive and tender, rolling road, tools, spares and firing irons.

Mightily impressed with this one - both the story and the engine. It steams freely and runs like a watch, a credit to its builder and the forty years he put into creating it.

Stock code	8141
Gauge	3 1/2 inch
Length/inches	36+21
Width/inches	7.5
Height/inches	10
Weight/Kg	46
Wheel material	cast iron
Axlebox type	plain bearing
Cylinder material	gunmetal
Valve type	piston
Valve gear	Walschaerts
Reverser type	screw
Lubricator type	mechanical
Boiler maker	L Whillock
Boiler type	locomotive with combustion chamber
Boiler construction	silver soldered
Boiler material	copper
Working pressure	80
CE/UKCA mark	n/a - non-commercial
Year built	1946-1986
Safety valve type	spring
Safety valve	2
Hand pump	1
Mechanical pump	1
Injector	1
Superheater type	flue tube
Superheater	4
Pack	Single half pallet
Date out	Nov-18
Hydraulic test valid to	05-Sep-22
Steam test valid to	07-Dec-19

3 1/2 inch gauge "Hielan Lassie"

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