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A Polly IV 0-6-0 tender locomotive. Built from a kit, this one has come from a long-time customer of ours, a retired chartered engineer now well into his nineties and showing little sign of slowing up!

In a long an eventful working life, he at one point set up and ran his own company manufacturing a well-regarded light aircraft - both he and his wife were pilots with several thousand hours logged.

In retirement he has undertaken a wide range of projects from his very comfortable, centrally-heated workshop, ranging from model aircraft through to overhauling a 4 inch scale Fowler road locomotive. In between all that, he found time to build one of our Staffords from a kit (and a very nice job he made of it, too).

The Western Steam boiler had been tested with new certification issued, needing little other than a new pressure gauge.

In excellent condition, having had little use from new, the engine steams freely and runs well in either direction.