12283

32/45mm gauge Garratt 2-4-0 + 0-4-2

A 45mm gauge radio controlled Garratt 2-4-0 + 0-4-2, of freelance design using Roundhouse running gear in the fashion of ELR Engineering.

The locomotive was serviced and reboilered by the talented Dave Mees at Abbeybach Engineering in June 2025, the new boiler supplied by Jack Shawe of Shawe Engineering.

The locomotive steams well and runs in both directions. Struggling with our rolling road, we laid a short track on the floor of the workshop to accommodate - a much more amusing way to test a locomotive, we really must get a permanent test track laid one of these days.

(As an aside - our favourite bookshop in the world has a G1 layout running on top of the bookcases, about two feet above head height, which while impractical for live steam is nonetheless a source of great envy).

Complete with radio control handset and carrying box.

Technical information

Stock code

12283

Gauge

45mm & smaller

Length/inches

30

Width/inches

5

Height/inches

6

Weight/Kg

7

Wheel material

steel

Axlebox type

plain bearing

Cylinder material

brass

Valve type

slide

Valve gear

simplified walschaerts

Reverser type

radio control

Boiler maker

Shawe Engineering

Boiler type

gas-fired centre flue

Boiler construction

silver soldered

Boiler material

copper

Working pressure

40

CE/UKCA mark

n/a - <2 litre capacity

Year built

2025

Boiler number

SE002

Safety valve type

spring

Safety valve

1

Hydraulic test valid to

27-Jan-2030

Steam test valid to

27-Mar-2027

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