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5 Inch Gauge Manor Overhaul


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Wow!!!!! Pictures please

 

The 15XX was built by now late Grandfather, with me mucking in during school holidays and any other possible visits, to give me and my brother something to play with on the railway in the garden. He was an engineer rather than a railway enthusiast so detail is sparse and hence the emblems are the wrong way round etc. but it used to run quite well which was the main thing! I have only run it once in the 9 years since his passing but may well be taking it for a spin out in a little over a weeks time for a change to give the poor old O2 a rest...!

 

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Finally managed to get a bit of time back on this, customer work and a workshop extension to more than double original size has been stopping me from doing much for some time...! However, the new needle roller axleboxes have been finished and she now sits on all her new wheels for the first time, a set of new scale buffers with chemically blackened heads have also been fitted. Next will be completion of the re-pinning/bushing of the valve gear, painting of the bottom end before re-fitting wheels and making a set of new coupling rods, something like that anyway...!

 

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Looking good!

 

If you're interested, I posted a video of my live steam club's annual meet, from a few weekends ago, on you tube.  At about the 7:20 mark, there's a shot of a 4.75" gauge "Compton Manor" running on our highline.

 

It was most built by a former GWR fireman named Harvey Fisher, who passed away just before it was finished.  It had been test fired on rollers, but Harvey never saw it run on the track.  His son Ian finished it, and its Ian who is running it in the video.  IMHO, its one of the nicest engines we have at Washakum, beautiful workmanship and finish, and runs very well.

 

 

And there's a still shot of it here:

 

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