Saw a body of this at the sales stand at Pewsey. Delightfull thing, never realised a model existed.
Slightly frustratingly, it was near on identical to the half-completed BP 4-4-2WT that I keep going on about without actually working on. Just when you've come up with what you think is an original idea...
Good show though. Plenty of detail bits bought, an article on Leeds No. 1 found and an area group joined. Wish I'd got a pic of the Beddgelert layout - sorry Colin!
AE
I suppose I could just about get away with running GSL on 'Rheidol Valley' - as the Brecon Mountain Railway at one time owned the VoR, I suppose GSL 'might have' visited at some point - I know one of the VoR locos once ran with GSL's tender at Brecon!
Richard
Quote from: Andy_Elms on August 17, 2009, 13:05
Saw a body of this at the sales stand at Pewsey. Delightfull thing, never realised a model existed.
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AE
As far as I know there has never been a kit so I suspect that it was scratch-built (or a one off etch). It's a shame I missed it as some of my earliest NG memories are visits to the Brecon Mountain and one of my first scratchbuilds was an attempt to build one of the passenger coaches not very succesfully (the body warped).
I have seen a Liliput 0-6-0 modified to look a bit like this loco, but it was over scale.
However the short tank version of the outside frame ROCO 0-6-0 with the rear bunker from the tank loco fitted would also make a passable representation, although the cab would be a bit low and the sand box is round not square as on the loco.
Brian Meldon