A trip to the local Sorting Office after work on Friday resulted in a parcel from Branchlines. The E2 chassis now has a Mashima 1220 motor and 67:1 Branchlines Multibox two stage gearbox. It drives the rear axle under the cab, and the gearbox needed a fair amount of it's sides removing to fit (and not be visible). I also had to reduce the thickness of the moulded backhead.

It's pictured on my hi-tech loco test facility - none of this rolling road nonsense for my locos.

This is the current state of play with the T1.

It has a proper cab floor and front cab bulkhead, since the cab won't be full of motor, some Gibson LSWR buffers and various bits of beading attached. My fingers survived this quite well.

The biggest problem were the etched coal rails - the needed shortening to fit. They weren't the easiest of components to modify with a file. Other than that it all went together with no major problems.

You can also see my dodgy soldering - this wont show when it's painted......