{"product_id":"15-inch-gauge-lner-a3-flying-scotsman-stock-code-5636","title":"15 inch gauge LNER A3 \"Flying Scotsman\"","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn interesting engine, built by Bill Stewart at the  Washington Iron Works, Tyne \u0026amp; Wear and completed in 1976. The builder had experience of large engines and boilers in particular,  his company having already made a new boiler for a 15 inch gauge Royal Scot and replacement  boilers for two Quarry Hunslets, then running in preservation. One could imagine  that, having played with the big LMS engine, he was inspired to built something  similar from the LNER, given the location of his works.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eUnusual for a locomotive in this gauge, this is built to  scale and highly detailed - it's a three cylinder engine with piston valves  actuated by Gresley-Holcroft gear; wheels are cast in steel and run in half  bronze axle boxes with felt wipers beneath; axleboxes are hung from leaf springs  with prototypical V-shaped trunnion blocks pivoting on the spring hangers  beneath; rear end is supported by a Cartazzi truck.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn its running career, the engine certainly got around the  country - normally resident at Whorlton Lido, it visited both the Romney, Hythe  \u0026amp; Dymchurch and\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRavenglass \u0026amp;  Eskdale Railways before moving to Bressingham Steam Museum on loan in the late  1970s where it ran on the Waverley Line there, in company with their German  Krupps Pacifics.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBought by Alan Bloom for the collection in the early 1980s,  the locomotive stood for some years in the shop entrance before being  dismantled, for reasons largely lost in the mists of time. It was gradually  reduced to a set of frames with cylinders - the wheelsets, boiler, fittings and  platework being removed and stored in a variety of places around the museum. In  time the tender was overhauled, repainted and lined out to a good standard and  work was done on the the chassis.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"Flying Scotsman\" came to us when, during a  motive power crisis on the Waverley Line (the last of the serviceable German  Pacifics suffered terminal boiler failure) our \u003ca href=\"\/products\/stock%20pages\/4221\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eExmoor-built  \"St Christopher\"\u003c\/a\u003e went east to Norfolk, with the A3 coming back in  exchange - several of the pictures below show it on arrival in the back of the 7  1\/2 tonner.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWithin a couple of weeks of arrival, the engine had had a  thorough inspection, our boiler inspector had looked through the superheated  boiler and commented favourably on the standard of construction (it's the only  one we've had in with expanded and beaded tubes) - his schedule of work called  for it to be retubed, prior to a hydraulic test.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOf the remainder, I think we've got the vast majority of  the bits, right down to the works plates. Main missing bits look to be the pair  of mechanical lubricators (which were oversized and arguably no great loss) and  a few fittings.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhilst some work has been completed over the last couple of  years, it has become increasingly obvious that new-build locomotives are taking  a great deal of our time - that, combined with two major overhauls currently  underway mean that the chance of the A3 seeing any serious effort any time soon  are increasingly remote. That being the case, and with lack of space an  ever-present problem, time has come for it to find somebody with a good-sized  workshop and plenty of time to dedicate to one of the most impressive projects  I've been lucky enough to own.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLength\u003cbr\u003e  Locomotive 12' 0\"\u003cbr\u003e  Tender 7' 6\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFrom the bits we've weighed (like the boiler, which is 3\/4 ton) we estimate  it at about four tons in running order\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020208492885,"sku":"5636","price":50000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/5636-1.webp?v=1779911803","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/15-inch-gauge-lner-a3-flying-scotsman-stock-code-5636","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}