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Sorry about the poor quality"
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txt[1] ="A 3½ gauge Britannia Class 7 built by a friend, Roy - myself driving and Roy behind. The Bedford Model Engineering Club clubhouse is in the background."
txt[2] ="Another view of the 3½ gauge Britannia on the Bedford club track"
txt[3] ="Britannia in pristine condition prior to it's first steaming."
txt[4] ="Britannia again with Roy driving, his father and Roy's wife Christine on the passenger trolley"
txt[5] ="My Simplex towing Britannia round the track to free off some of the rather precision made motion parts"
txt[6] ="Same as the previous one but going round the track in the opposite direction."
txt[7] ="Enterprise, a very powerful 3 cylinder 2-6-2 being driven by Roy - again built by Roy and his father"
txt[8] ="The same Enterprise on display at the Whitbread Show"
txt[9] ="A beautiful model of a Showmans Fairground engine made by Ray Newman in Bedfordshire"
txt[10]="Me with Simplex at the North London track. The little brass lights on the front were fully functional, and if you look carefully, you will see the end of a battery-pack under the front of the driving trolley I'm sitting on. There was also a light in the cab. Believe it or not, we used to have night steaming sessions at the Bedford Club."
txt[11]="Simplex stripped down for it's 2000 mile service! In the background is the part-built chassis and wheels of a 5 inch gauge Britannia I was building"
txt[12]="Springbok - another creation of Roy and his father. Roy's brother Ray is driving"
txt[13]="Springbok on the steaming bays at the North London Track"
txt[14]="Springbok again being driven by a different model engineer, Steve. Steve was a most prolific builder of amazing steam models - sadly I have no pictures of his work"
txt[15]="A rare hot steaming day at Bedford - I was skinny in those days!"
txt[16]="The boiler for the 5 inch Britannia I was building - now being finished by Ian McKenzie in the UK"
txt[17]="The tender for the 5 inch Britannia"
txt[18]="Another view of the tender"
txt[19]="The running chassis for the 5 inch Britannia"
txt[20]="The tender chassis for the 5 inch Britannia"
txt[21]="Close-up of the Valscharts valve gear motion for the 5 inch Britannia. To give an idea of scale, the coupled wheels (that's the big ones) are about 7 1/2 inches in diameter. Unlike the lightweight machinery I now have, I used to have a 2 ton horizontal milling machine which coped with the fluting of the long connecting rods no problem."
txt[22]="From around 1948 - me (the small white thing hanging out the cab window) on the footplate of 61791 'Loch Laggan' on the last leg from Glasgow to Mallaig. Picture taken at Morar station in western Scotland.
This loco was ex GNR H3 Class 2-6-0, GNR 1701, built by Kitson as Works No.5351 in August 1921. It became LNER 4701 Class K2 on 8th November 1924 and was named LOCH LAGGAN on 6th May 1933. It was renumbered 1791 on 27th July 1946; BR 61791 on 20th November 1948. A longtime Fort William engine, it was withdrawn from there on 22nd March 1960 and cut up at Cowlairs.
This is a picture of a K2 in it's green livery with the unmodified cab window arangement (the windows were modified for the Scottish weather!)
Picture is from http://www.lner.info."