{"product_id":"7-14-inch-gauge-lms-duchess-with-commercial-boiler-stock-code-10978","title":"7 1\/4 inch gauge LMS \"Duchess\" with commercial boiler","description":"An early stage 7 1\/4 inch gauge LMS \"Duchess\" to the Jim Vass design, complete with new commercially-built CE-marked copper boiler.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Work to date is to a good standard and comprises:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e    \u003cli\u003eErected frames with stretchers, buffer beams, horns, needle roller axleboxes and springs.\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eMachined driving wheels and plain leading\/traliing axles\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eFront bogie assembled\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eTrailing truck with machined wheelset\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eLocomotive and tender sprung buffers\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eSmokebox profiled, rolled and welded\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eInside\/outside cylinder castings, unmachined\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eChimney, smokebox ring castings\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eFlat profiled parts, including some motionwork\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eCE-marked TIG-welded copper boiler by Steam Technology\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eSet of drawings\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Much work to do, but with a large amount of money already spent - the new boiler currently lists at over £12,000, the cylinder, wheel and other sundry castings at £3,000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    For those requiring inspiration to take on this most magnificent of prototypes in the impressive scale that 7 1\/4 inch gauge provides - the finished engine and tender come out at over nine feet long, weighing over half a ton - \u003ca href=\"\/products\/7-14-inch-gauge-lms-duchess-queen-mary-stock-code-8028\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ethere are pictures of \"Queen Mary\" which we sold back in 2018 in the archive here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Partsn and castings for the locomotive are available from \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.horleyminiaturelocomotives.com\/LMS-4-6-2-4-cyl-Duchess.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHorley Miniature Locomotives\u003c\/a\u003e, who took over the Jim Vass range of designs some years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    As always, our friends at Model Engineers Laser stock \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.modelengineerslaser.co.uk\/Catalogue\/LocomotivePart\/449\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea comprehensive range of high quality profiled parts for locomotive and tender\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54009604047189,"sku":"10978","price":9750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/10978-1.webp?v=1779898548","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/7-14-inch-gauge-lms-duchess-with-commercial-boiler-stock-code-10978","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}