7 1/4 inch gauge Greenly Mogul 2-6-0

A 7 1/4 inch gauge Mogul, built to a pre-war Greenly design with the handsome proportions, robustly executed valve gear and generous bearing surfaces that typified his work, including the mighty 15 inch gauge locomotives of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, designed a decade earlier.

An older engine with interesting history, it was started in the 1960s although not finished until 1977 when it was run at Colchester Zoo, in company with another Mogul "Wendy" which we sold back in 2021. Newly-outshopped, the engine featured on the front cover of the "7 1/4 inch gauge news" at that time.

In later years it ran at Hemsby until the original boiler finally required replacement.

After passing through a number of hands, it ended up with a long time customer of ours, a luminary of the 7 1/4 inch gauge world, who also currently owns "Wendy", the two engines ending up together again. Recently - and like many of us men of a certain age - he has come to realise that the total hours required to restore all projects in his workshop may soon exceed any reasonably expected lifespan and so, somewhat reluctantly, decided to move the Greenly on.

Work to restore the locomotive is largely a repaint and reassembly job - we believe that virtually all parts are present to put it back together, along with a new commercially built CE-marked steel boiler by Gloucester Steam & Traction.

The chassis runs on air beautifully, down to a slow tickover in either direction - a testament to high quality workmanship combined with an excellent design by one of the great pioneers of miniature steam.

A worthwhile project which will produce a powerful, good-looking engine, it's all up weight of around a quarter of a ton providing useful adhesive weight. Not a design we see very often, we've had a couple of running examples in the last twenty years - including a Great Western style version we sold in 2021, shown in the video below - as well as one or two part-built engines.