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8493

5 inch gauge Southern "King Arthur" 4-6-0

We sold this one back in 2015, it came from a long-time customer of ours down in Wiltshire. It's recently come back in from a man who bought it late last year to run at his local club.

Didn't turn out to be quite the engine he thought it was - although recently serviced and with a freshly minted boiler certificate when bought, it currently needs work, including

  • Repair to leaking wet header
  • Reposition regulator lever, which fouls the water gauge blowdown valve
  • Service/replace the safety valves, which open but don't close
  • Service injectors, neither of which work
  • Replace tie-wrap secured axle pump plumbing, which blows off when the bypass is closed
  • Repair leak in tender allowing water into the coal space

On the plus side it runs quite well - there's some video of it on the rolling road here - and the hand pump works.

Technical information

Stock code

8493

Gauge

5 inch

Length/inches

42+30

Width/inches

10

Height/inches

15

Wheel material

cast iron

Cylinder material

cast iron

Valve type

slide

Valve gear

Walschaerts

Reverser type

screw

Lubricator type

mechanical

Boiler maker

Swindon Boilers

Boiler type

locomotive

Boiler construction

silver soldered

Boiler material

copper

Working pressure

90

CE/UKCA mark

n/a - pre-2002

Year built

1998

Boiler number

981130

Hand pump

1

Mechanical pump

1

Injector

2

Date out

Apr-19

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