7 1/4 GWR King Class 4-6-0
£38,000.00
This is a 7 1/4 inch gauge King model, and one of a pair built by professional model engineer David Adams. The engines were commissioned in the 1980s and were built to the design of Trevor Shortland, the drawings and castings for which are available from Reeves.
The engine has enjoyed one ownership since new and has been run at the late, great Garden and Woodland Railway, Echills Wood Railway and other railways before semi-retirement at the owners private track. Proving a little to big for such a line, the engine has been retired following a lubricator issue. Since then, it has been overhauled by a local model engineer (himself a serial model maker) and lastly repainted into late 1940s BR/GWR transitional livery, making it a little bit more unique than other Kings we have seen.
The engine has a copper boiler built by boiler maker Don Brook, for which its ticket and subsequent federation Hydraulic and Steam tests are supplied.
4 cylinder layout featuring walscheart’s inside valve gear operating 4 Piston valves
Superheated
Copper boiler
2x water feed injectors
Vacuum brakes
Blower
Tender handbrake
Mechanical lubricator (redesigned to be more functional than the original)
Description
The GWR 6000 King Class were 4-6-0 express passenger locomotives introduced in 1927 by the Great Western Railway for principal main line services. Designed under C. B. Collett, they featured large boilers, four-cylinder drive and high axle loads, restricting their route availability. Built primarily for the London–West of England and South Wales routes, the class remained in service until the early 1960s.
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