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4 inch scale Burrell DCC road locomotive - stock code 8580

A part-built 4 inch scale Burrell DCC road locomotive, to the Live Steam Models design and using their castings.

Work to date includes:

  • Boiler by Franklin and Bell with paperwork
  • Mounted hornplates with machined Cannon Brackets, 2nd shaft and axle
  • Machined one-piece crankshaft with gears, eccentric inners and flywheel
  • Cylinder block machined by LSM, complete with safety valves and Pickering governor
  • Pistons and piston rods
  • Valves and valve rods
  • Front and rear wheels
  • Smokebox, perch bracket, axle, springs, chimney with base
  • Water pump
  • Clack valves
  • Weighshaft bracket
  • Castings including fire bars, crossheads, steering wheel, brake wheel
scale 4 inch
weight/kg est 750 when complete
cylinder material cast iron
valve type slide
valve gear Stephensons
governor type Pickering
boiler maker Franklin & Bell
boiler type locomotive
boiler material steel
boiler construction welded, expanded tubes