7 1/4" Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway Number 12 First Test Fire 

Big giants

Look at the rhdr and then come back to that opinion 😂😂 nah jk

Many of our models are built over a great many years by hobbyist model engineers. They are complete works of art that can also be fired and run. 🙂

More or less, it’s Welsh Anthracite small nuts,….. and welsh steam coal is also an anthracite.

@@TheSteamWorkshop cool im with you so you basically mix the harder anthracite Welsh coal with the softer long flame Welsh coal?

This is one that we intend to keep and operate at our miniature railway in Manchester. 🙂

Easily

Extremely easily. 😁

Sadly not. This is a unique scratch built one off. We would consider producing it as a kit, we have all the patterns to make castings, but it certainly wouldn’t be a cheep thing to do.

@tacfoley I fear it would cost significantly more than that these days. Possibly as little as £20,000 for the boiler, castings and raw materials for the build, and then a full time professional model engineers wage for around 2 years,….. if all goes well. I reckon £100,000 minimum, and even that would almost certainly be too tight for us to be able to be confident about making a profit. I think at £150,000, we’d feel confident enough that there was enough money available to buy enough time to ensure that we could do a good enough job, comparable to this loco. 🙂

I'm sure if the builder knew how much he spent he'd probably jump off a bridge and if his spouse found out, he wouldn't have to jump!