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5 inch gauge LMS "Crab" 2-6-0 - stock code 11268

A large quantity of parts for a 5 inch gauge LMS "Crab" 2-6-0 to the Don Young design, comprising:

  • Commercially built silver soldered copper boiler by R.Chambers
  • Set laser cut frames and stretchers
  • Driving & coupled and pony wheel castings
  • Unmachined gunmetal castings including cylinder set, motion brackets, smokebox door & rings, horns, chimney, petticoat pipe and dome
  • Boiler fittings including safety valves, injectors, gauge fittings, steam valves, blower valve, "Everlasting" blowdown valve
  • Erected tender frames
  • Machined tender wheels and axleboxes
  • Laser cut brass tender body parts
  • Drawings

A well-regarded design, although one that's rarely modelled - not sure why, as it's a handsome, highly distinctive looking locomotive with its steeply inclined cylinders giving an impression of power even at rest.

Parts and castings are available from Reeves, as ever Model Engineers Laser list a wide range of profiled parts to assist in the build.

If you need some inspiration to get started on this one, there are some pictures of a superb example that we sold some years ago in the archive.

gauge 5 inch
length/inches 37 + 23
width/inches 8
height/inches 12
weight/kg 88
wheel material cast iron
axlebox type plain
cylinder material gunmetal
boiler number RC905
boiler maker R.Chambers
CE mark n/a pre-2002