{"product_id":"7-14-inch-gauge-hunslet-0-4-0st-lilla-with-swindon-boiler-stock-code-6973","title":"7 1\/4 inch gauge Hunslet 0-4-0ST \"Lilla\" with Swindon boiler","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e   An early stage example of \"Lilla\", the doubled up version of Ross  Harrison's well-regarded 3 1\/2 inch gauge design. Based on the prototype  originally preserved by Bernard Latham (who seems to have owned just about every narrow gauge  locomotive at some point), the full-sized engine is now resident on the Ffestiniog Railway, owned by a  group of FR society members.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e   Significantly bigger than the ubiquitous \"Alice\" class Hunslet, it's a substantial  sized engine in 7 1\/4 inch gauge at just under five feet long with 2 1\/2 x 4  inch cylinders and 7 1\/2 inch driving wheels. The builder, now a man well into his  retirement years and with a 7 1\/4 Britannia already built, started this one not realising quite how big the  thing was  going to finish up - he's decided to move on to something smaller, leaving somebody else to take  up the project.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e   Work to date comprises an erected set of frames with buffer beams and springs,  machined two-part axleboxes and wheelset with flycranks. There are unmachined  castings for the cylinder set, chimney cap and base, eccentric straps and  sheaves and smokebox door, along with material for pistons and a set of  commercially produced piston rings.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e   The beautifully made copper boiler is by the estimable Mr Tremblen of Swindon  Boilers, silver soldered throughout and CE marked on the backhead. Regulator has  been made and fitted.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e   Parts and castings for the design are available from Blackgates Engineering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010098876757,"sku":"6973","price":4950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/6973-1.webp?v=1779900423","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/7-14-inch-gauge-hunslet-0-4-0st-lilla-with-swindon-boiler-stock-code-6973","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}