{"product_id":"3-12-inch-gauge-hielan-lassie-stock-code-8141","title":"3 1\/2 inch gauge \"Hielan Lassie\"","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cdiv\u003eThe 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!\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eThe 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\".\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eComplete with the builder's notebooks, fitted boxes for the locomotive and tender, rolling road, tools, spares and firing irons.\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eMightily 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.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54019025961301,"sku":"8141","price":4750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/8141-1.webp?v=1779901207","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/3-12-inch-gauge-hielan-lassie-stock-code-8141","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}