{"product_id":"7-14-inch-gauge-holmside-0-6-0st-with-tender-stock-code-12946","title":"7 1\/4 inch gauge \"Holmside\" 0-6-0ST with tender","description":"A 7 1\/4 inch gauge 0-6-0T to Martin Evans' \"Holmside\" design, complete with ride-on tender; the work of a preternaturally gifted model engineer, a man whose work has appeared many times on these pages.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    I bought this engine from the builder - the first and only time I ever met him - in 2009. Brand new at that time, it had been test-steamed once to check the valve setting - \u003ca href=\"\/products\/7-14-inch-gauge-holmside-with-tender-stock-code-3994\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ethere's a write-up and pictures in the archive here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    We last sold the engine in 2011 to a local man, a long time customer of ours, himself a formidably talented engineer (with what most be the tidiest workshop we've ever seen!) His main interest is in 7 1\/4 inch narrow gauge - he built a highly modified Romulus, complete with booster tender, which sees regular use - with the Holmside spending much of the last sixteen years on a shelf in his workshop, rarely used. It remains in much the same condition as when I bought it from the builder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    The boiler has had hydraulic and steam tests with new certification issued. The engine runs beautifully on the rolling road - the hallmark of all of this builder's models (indeed, so well did they go that years ago we dismantled a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/3-inch-scale-burrell-agricultural-engine-stock-code-7595\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e3 inch scale Burrell\u003c\/a\u003e he'd built to find out what hidden tricks lay within. None, as it turned out - just a lot of very accurately made and finely fitted parts).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    If you're not familiar with the late Keith Massey's work, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/keith-massey-1935---2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ethere is a writeup here with details of this most remarkable of builders.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    \u003ciframe width=\"353\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9R9zNJi_8Bs?si=b0LM4iqFwZvrGXId\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010004832597,"sku":"12946","price":10500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/12946-1.webp?v=1779899914","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/7-14-inch-gauge-holmside-0-6-0st-with-tender-stock-code-12946","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}