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Can you identify this locomotive pleas?

Started by MikeWilliams, Nov 01 2023 17:12

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MikeWilliams

Nov 01 2023 17:12
Very nicely made.  Solid axleboxes - unsprung.  Has a large boiler and large smokebox with suggests to me it might be European rather than British, but does anyone recognise its origins please?  Is it a well known G3 design?.

Mike

MikeWilliams

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Nov 01 2023 17:17
And here's the underside.

Mike

Andy B

#2
Nov 01 2023 22:07
Mike - can you take a few measurements - axle centres. wheel diameter, boiler diameter?
Might help narrow it down.
Andy

MikeWilliams

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Nov 01 2023 22:30
Driving axle centres 5in, drivers 3.5in diameter.  Boiler 10in long (plus smokebox) and 3in diameter with 7 tubes plus flue.  I suspect its a 2 1/2in design as the construction is strong, but nice.  The boiler seems to be amateur made, very heavy and bears no markings at all.

Mike

IanT

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Nov 02 2023 09:39
Possibly a Henry Greenly design?

Henry Greenly Designs

A NER R1 perhaps?

Regards,


IanT
Nothing's ever Easy - At least the first time around.

MikeWilliams

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Nov 02 2023 10:22
Thank you Ian.  I managed to find one picture of a Greenly R1 and you may well be right.  The general layout, shape of the frames etc does look the same.  The bogie wheels are smaller on this model, but it does come with castings for larger ones.  Even the smokebox details look the same.

Now I need to find it a home.

Mike
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