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10 1/4 Hymek refurbished


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This Hymek was built by my brother Aidan in about 1999, and completed in 2000. I built much of the body in the old workshops at RADA, welded up from ERW steel tube and bright steel sheet, which we had in abundance, having been donated from sonewhere or other.....

Less successful were the cab roof ends, which I laminated up from many layers of MDF to form the shape, and given lots of coats of paint. Over the years, damp got in to the MDF and it delaminated, and has now finally been replaced (not by me!) with something much better (I believe it might be glass-fibred now).

 

The loco is driven on one bogie via a full hydraulic system (not to be confused with hydrostatic), powered by a diesel 'Power-pack'. Hydraulic disc brakes provide stopping power.

 

The loco currently resides at the privately owned Ingfield Light Railway in west Sussex.

 

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2018-12-31_08-03-08 by giles favell, on Flickr

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