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Stuart "Major" beam engine - stock code 11344

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Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
Stuart "Major" beam engine
A Stuart "Major" beam engine, a particularly finely made engine, mounted on an engine room platform with detailed stairs and handrailing.

The engine has been on display in the late owner's house until recent times, a man legendary in the 7 1/4 inch gauge world and builder not only of many fine locomotives - several of which we've sold over the years - but also what was almost certainly the most ambitious, not to mention picturesque, privately owned and operated railway in the country on which to run them.

The engine is is excellent condition, complete with an acrylic display cover - not pictured and not up to the standard of the rest of the engine, which would merit a proper wood-framed glass cover to protect it.

length/inches 32
width/inches 30
height/inches 23
weight/kg 56
bore x stroke/inches 1 3/4 x 3 3/4
wheel material cast iron flywheel, 13 7/8 inch diameter
cylinder material cast iron
valve type slide
mechanical pump 1