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5 inch gauge Southern "King Arthur" 4-6-0 - stock code 8493
We sold this one back in 2015, it came from a long-time customer of ours down in Wiltshire. It's recently come back in from a man who bought it late last year to run at his local club.
Didn't turn out to be quite the engine he thought it was - although recently serviced and with a freshly minted boiler certificate when bought, it currently needs work, including
- Repair to leaking wet header
- Reposition regulator lever, which fouls the water gauge blowdown valve
- Service/replace the safety valves, which open but don't close
- Service injectors, neither of which work
- Replace tie-wrap secured axle pump plumbing, which blows off when the bypass is closed
- Repair leak in tender allowing water into the coal space
On the plus side it runs quite well - there's some video of it on the rolling road here - and the hand pump works.
| gauge | 5 inch |
| length/inches | 42+30 |
| width/inches | 10 |
| height/inches | 15 |
| wheel material | cast iron |
| cylinder material | cast iron |
| valve type | slide |
| valve gear | Walschaerts |
| reverser type | screw |
| lubricator type | mechanical |
| injector(s) | 2 |
| boiler number | 981130 |
| year built | 1998 |
| boiler maker | Swindon Boilers |
| CE mark | n/a - pre-2002 |
| working pressure/psi | 90 |
| boiler type | locomotive |
| boiler material | copper |
| boiler construction | silver soldered |
| mechanical pump | 1 |
| hand pump | 1 |
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