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Jenny Lind takes a break (while her crew go down the pub...!)

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Following a great little video recently produced by Anthony Dawson about the locomotive Jenny Lind of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, I felt inspired to give my own 4mm scale model a little break from the monotony of the display cabinet.

 

The original locomotive was the first of a batch designed by David Joy and built by E.B.Wilson of Leeds. Delivered in 1847, it was a very successful class of locomotives which owed much to the  design of John Gray who had been Locomotive Superintendent of the LB&SCR. His express engine bears a strong resemblance to Joy's creation but his were built by Hackworth's and construction was so painfully slow that they were still being delivered after the better Jenny Lind class were entering service.

 

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I built it many ago from a set of castings loosely resembling a kit. Not an easy build and I ended up motorising the tender using a small transverse motor from an old defunct Apple computer. It works ok but isn't a very helpful example for others to follow and certainly not the sort of thing that's ideal to include in the 'kit'!

 

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At some point I should perhaps add some crew but for the purposes of explaining these photos, they have clearly gone off to the pub for swift porter before anyone notices they've gone...

 

 

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Note the similarity between Gray's design and the subsequent Jenny Lind's in the drawing below. The odd looking box in front of the driving wheel is the boiler feed pump. A much better drawing of Gray's engine exists but I am waiting for my copy to arrive soon so this one will have to do for now. Plans are afoot to model this one too.

 

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I hope the inclusion of the video link is within RMWeb rules, if not please accept my apologies and delete it. I had no part in the making of the video but I have to say the live steam model (not mine) in the video is really something special. I hope you enjoy it.

 

 

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Another Jenny in full flow, gliding through the building site that will be Hurstmonceux.

Apologies for the rather sick making camera work, as the focus on my phone tried to keep up. 

This Jenny was built from the kit that Chris mentions above, which makes up as a very nice model. Power is in the tender, which has a HighLevel diesel motor bogie with an extra axle squeezed in. No need for an exaggerated mountain of coal. 

The Jennies lasted well into the 1870s (one made it into the following decade), by which time the wooden boiler lagging had been sheathed in iron and the axle driven pumps had been replaced.

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Eric 

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A fine model in a perfect setting. I wonder how often those feedwater pumps got knocked off. 

Good to see one running Burgandy, nice rake behind it. 

 

 

 

 

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Note the similarity between Gray's design and the subsequent Jenny Lind's in the drawing below. The odd looking box in front of the driving wheel is the boiler feed pump. A much better drawing of Gray's engine exists but I am waiting for my copy to arrive soon so this one will have to do for now. Plans are afoot to model this one too.

 

So which iteration of the "useless Hackworth engines" can we  look forward to Chris?

Best wishes 

Eric 

 

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29 minutes ago, burgundy said:

So which iteration of the "useless Hackworth engines" can we  look forward to Chris?

Best wishes 

Eric 

 

 

Well, I've had to do a bit of homework on this one. Burtt, Bradley and Ahrons all discuss Gray's engine, and Burtt shows an example (Fig.11) of what he calls No.49 of the LB&SCR. Ahrons also provides a drawing but this time of one of Gray's engines for the Hull & Selby where he was Locomotive Superintendent before coming to Brighton. These two drawings match.

 

However, David Joy made a drawing of Gray's 'Express engine for the LB&SCR' and that's the one also illustrated in The Engineer (pictured above). I now have a good copy of this drawing (can't share here for copyright reasons) but it confirms without doubt that it is one of Gray's LB&SCR engines built by Hackworth's 1846-48. Many thanks to Tom Nicholls for buying me a copy of the drawing!

 

Therefore, Burtt got it wrong. He clearly made no reference to David Joy's archives but chose to illustrate Gray's Brighton locos with a drawing of one of Gray's Hull & Selby engines (lazy?). Bradley didn't bother to provide an illustration and to be fair to Ahrons, he shows Gray's H&SR engine not his LB&SCR one.

 

So, to answer your question, the loco will look like that one from The Engineer, not the one in Burtt's book as I think that's a red herring!

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Yes, a superb little celebration of Jenny Lind. Dropping by here on a dreary February morning feels like opening a chest full of precious stones.

 

I like the livestock pens as a backdrop, they do work very well.

 

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