Pity that the local 7 inch model steam engineering society I used to go to, which was the Wigan Model Engineering Society at Haigh Country Park never bothered making a scale A4 Pacific and I thought none existed until I saw a video on youtube a few years ago. I would've thought someone in that club would've made one and displayed it, but they never did for some reason. There was a couple of good A3s and Britannia class engines like Springbok there, but nothing has lovely as an A4 Pacific. Last time I visited the place there was hardly a soul about. Back in the early 90s my dad had the intention of making a simple tank engine as a beginners project, even bought the plans to make it and had a works lathe, but due to lack of time and the ridiculous cost in making it the idea never got going, basically just a pipe dream.
What a superb example of model engineering! I can only marvel at the workmanship, the skill and not to mention the man hours that have been invested to make this beautiful model of a Gresley A4. The track and the quality of the video complement the locomotive wonderfully. Thank you so much for uploading this and making an old man very happy!!.
WOW I love the running with the two A4's side by side. I am from the US and would love to have some resources on building one of these for 7.5" gage here. I plan to make a functioning version of 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower because, well you know why, and am coming up short on web searches. Thanks for any help!
This is Nottingham Model Engineers based at Ruddington (just outside of Nottingham) and they are adjacent to the Great Central Heritage Railway Notttingham (not the Loughborough one). The blue A4 is 7.5inch and as you've found A4s rarely appear on this gauge. I've found two on the internet and both were shot here. I can't believe that there are only two 7.5inch A4s in this country so with a bit more digging around on Google and UA-cam more will turn up I'm sure. My suggestion would be to contact them, gain advice and go from there. All the best with it.
Hi Keith, firstly thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. The reason that I personally don’t link up when running is due to uneven valve liner wear, when linked up the valve is only wearing the centre section of the valve liner so when new rings are made for the piston valve it’s impossible to get a perfect tight fit due to this uneven wear in the centre of the liner unless the liner is rebored. That said when running in efficiency trials I then link up to get better coal efficiency. There is one exception to this rule for me, when driving an engine with slide valves, as you might know slide valves wear in and piston valves wear out.
+LMS4767 Thanks a lot for the link. Strange they doesn't publish any stuff to layout. At their free accessable FB site facebook.com/nottinghamsmee/ we see by pics layout is very complex.
Pity that the local 7 inch model steam engineering society I used to go to, which was the Wigan Model Engineering Society at Haigh Country Park never bothered making a scale A4 Pacific and I thought none existed until I saw a video on youtube a few years ago. I would've thought someone in that club would've made one and displayed it, but they never did for some reason. There was a couple of good A3s and Britannia class engines like Springbok there, but nothing has lovely as an A4 Pacific. Last time I visited the place there was hardly a soul about.
Back in the early 90s my dad had the intention of making a simple tank engine as a beginners project, even bought the plans to make it and had a works lathe, but due to lack of time and the ridiculous cost in making it the idea never got going, basically just a pipe dream.
Very free running loco and outstanding paint job. Respect to the builder (and painter) if they are not one and the same.
What a superb example of model engineering! I can only marvel at the workmanship, the skill and not to mention the man hours that have been invested to make this beautiful model of a Gresley A4. The track and the quality of the video complement the locomotive wonderfully. Thank you so much for uploading this and making an old man very happy!!.
60021 was always my favourite A4.Wild Swan conjures up Grace and Power just like the Beautiful bird.
*Happy times, may they return very soon, was there yesterday (Rushcliffe Country Park) and absolutely wonderful*
Really nice video. I really like the reflections in the paintwork a sign of hard work and quality.
seen wild swan few times at chesterfield club shes a cracking engine
Excellent - I love the parallel running shots of of the two A4's - gauges apart
Enjoyed that! What a great loco
WOW I love the running with the two A4's side by side. I am from the US and would love to have some resources on building one of these for 7.5" gage here. I plan to make a functioning version of 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower because, well you know why, and am coming up short on web searches. Thanks for any help!
This is Nottingham Model Engineers based at Ruddington (just outside of Nottingham) and they are adjacent to the Great Central Heritage Railway Notttingham (not the Loughborough one). The blue A4 is 7.5inch and as you've found A4s rarely appear on this gauge. I've found two on the internet and both were shot here. I can't believe that there are only two 7.5inch A4s in this country so with a bit more digging around on Google and UA-cam more will turn up I'm sure. My suggestion would be to contact them, gain advice and go from there. All the best with it.
7.25inch that should have read, a typo. I take it you meant 7.25 in your post. Good luck to you though.
Just gorgeous. Does anybody know if these are RTR or built from kits, please?
stunning loco! it must be fantastic to drive your own steam engine like that :-)
Quality. What a great club.
Was she previously painted in LNER Blue?
why does not one link the valve gear up at speed.
Hi Keith, firstly thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. The reason that I personally don’t link up when running is due to uneven valve liner wear, when linked up the valve is only wearing the centre section of the valve liner so when new rings are made for the piston valve it’s impossible to get a perfect tight fit due to this uneven wear in the centre of the liner unless the liner is rebored. That said when running in efficiency trials I then link up to get better coal efficiency.
There is one exception to this rule for me, when driving an engine with slide valves, as you might know slide valves wear in and piston valves wear out.
is there a map of this model railway layout?
+pega17pl I cannot find a map, but this is the Model Engineering Society who's track the films was made at.
www.nsmee.org.uk/
+LMS4767
Thanks a lot for the link. Strange they doesn't publish any stuff to layout. At their free accessable FB site
facebook.com/nottinghamsmee/
we see by pics layout is very complex.