3 1/2 inch gauge Junagadh State Railway 4-6-0

A 3 1/2 inch gauge 4-6-0 tender locomotive, one of a class built for the metre gauge Junagadh State Railway in the 1930s.

The work of a prolific model engineer, it was exhibited at the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition some years ago - the last picture opposite shows it there, in well-advanced state.

Since then it has lain dismantled in the builder's workshop. Well on, now in his ninth decade, with building an experimental 2-8-0 BR Standard Class "might have been" his mind is fixed firmly on future projects rather than revisiting previous builds - completion of this one will be down to the next owner.