{"product_id":"5-inch-gauge-part-built-15xx-stock-code-3209","title":"5 inch gauge part-built 15xx","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eI expect you bought a copy of LBSC's \"Model Locomotive   Building - Introducing Tich\" at about the same time as I did (twelve years   old, at the Model Engineer Exhibition when it was still at Wembley, father used   to take me at Christmas). I read and re-read my copy, wondering how on earth you   converted the four wheel castings and hornplates he'd bought me into something   that looked like the drawings in the book. I looked at the finished engines   featured and have often wondered since what happened to \"Mrs Ruth Daltry,   the well-known Rugby enthusiast\" and her \"Tich\" with United   Dairies milk tanker and \"Mr F Raw of the Stockport Society at the regulator   of his Tich\", with an old black and white picture featuring a man driving   at his club track at a time when everybody still wore a jacket and tie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cimg src=\"\/images\/additional\/jsj.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"302\"\u003e   \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eAnother of the pictures featured \"Mr J S Jackson of   Wakefield\" with his engine, featured in the \"Wakefield Express\"   having just won an award at a local exhibition - and of Mr Jackson, we now know   a little more...\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\"Tich\", his first engine, obviously fired his   imagination. Working as a motor mechanic by day, he proceeded over the years to   build a string of extremely fine locomotives and traction engines, in the   process becoming friends with Louis Raper, the multi-award winning professional   modeller and establishing a name for excellence of his painting and lining - so   much so that other models arrived at his workshop for painting over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eAt the time of his death, the only engine remaining unfinished   was his masterwork, a GWR 15xx tank locomotive built to works drawings. There is   little point in describing the quantity and quality of work achieved to date, I   will let the pictures tell the story. Suffice to say it is one of the finest two   or three engines I have had pass through my hands, every bit as well made as \u003ca href=\"\/products\/stock%20pages\/2248\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJohn   Adams' 5 inch gauge Black 5\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/stock%20pages\/2877\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFrederick   Robinson's 3 1\/2 inch gauge\u003c\/a\u003e version of the same engine.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe engine is about 80% complete, it is missing much of the   motion work, piston valve, piston and guide bars from the right hand side. Many   years in build, it has spent most of its life in the glass case shown.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54019985506645,"sku":"3209","price":5950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/3209-1.webp?v=1779909026","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/5-inch-gauge-part-built-15xx-stock-code-3209","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}