{"product_id":"3-12-inch-gauge-highland-railway-2-2-2-raigmore-stock-code-12145","title":"3 1\/2 inch gauge Highland Railway 2-2-2 \"Raigmore\"","description":"A finely made 3 1\/2 inch gauge model of the 2-2-2 \"Raigmore\", built for the Highland Railway in 1855 by Hawthorns of Leith, to a design by Alexander Allan, later rebuilt as a 2-4-0 by Stroudley.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    The work of a highly experienced, award-winning model engineer, he recorded 1,141 hours building the locomotive over a 12 month period from 2006 to 2007, with a further 343 hours to build the tender, starting in March 2007 and finishing on Christmas Day 2008. The engine went on to take First Prize in the scratch-built model class at the Elgin Model Fair in that year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Work over the following four years saw the production of several items of rolling stock, including a Highland Railway \u003ca href=\"\/products\/3-12-inch-gauge-highland-railway-first-class-carriage-stock-code-12143\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFirst\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/3-12-inch-gauge-highland-railway-second-class-carriage-stock-code-12142\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSecond\u003c\/a\u003e class coach of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    His final notes mention further work on the locomotive - amongst other things there is currently no main steam connection from header to cylinders; one can only surmise what the builder had in mind when re-visiting his earlier work. As with his other models, the locomotive remains in ex-works condition, unsteamed from new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Eagle-eyed readers may have spotted the lack of a pressure gauge. Prototypically accurate, the original locomotive was built only five years after Eugène Bourdon patented his pressure gauge, concerned by the prevalence of boiler explosions on the railways at that time. The new-fangled technology had, apparently, yet to travel north of the border by1855.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    A folder with the model contains photographs of the original locomotives and the model during build, design drawings for the boiler and valve gear, and award certificate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Complete with a fitted transport box and length of display track (on which it stands in our house for now, keeping company with a Crampton of the same era and equally handsome lines).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    \u003ci\u003eHarry Clyne produced a prodigious quantity of high quality models during his life, many award winners at shows throughout the country. They encompassed locomotives (including Stroudley's rebuild of \"Raigmore\") and traction engines (including the super \u003ca href=\"\/products\/4-inch-scale-tasker-little-giant-stock-code-12148\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e4 inch scale Tasker\u003c\/a\u003e we've sold recently), as well as finely detailed models of stationary engines and gunnery.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    As a child he built models with his father, following a five year apprenticeship he joined the RAF, working on Vulcan bombers. A stint running his own motorcycle repair business was followed by employment at a company pioneering fish farming, where he worked as a diver, designer and engineer - a heady combination!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    After retirement he came back to model engineering, from the start picking up awards for the quality of his models.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54019738829141,"sku":"12145","price":3250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/12145-1.webp?v=1779906735","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/3-12-inch-gauge-highland-railway-2-2-2-raigmore-stock-code-12145","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}