Quarter Scale Ray Mead Single Cylinder Steam Engine by Dyson Watkins
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GAS FIRING A 5" GAUGE GETTING THE BEST OUT OF THE LONDON MODEL LOCOMOTIVE STEPHENSON’S VALVE GEAR ENGINEERING EXHIBITION CONSTRUCTION: ‘WESSIE’ - THE LNWR QUARTER SCALE 0-8-0 HEAVY GOODS ENGINE IN 5" GAUGE RAY MEAD TECHNICAL: THE STORY OF A FLASH-STEAM SINGLE CYLINDER TURBINE-POWERED HYDROPLANE £2.95 REPORT: THE RINGSTEAD FOUNDRY AT THE STEAM ENGINE MIDLANDS EXHIBITION 2010 2011 MAY May Contents Volume 32 No. 11 May 2011 Editorial 361 Steam on the DART 381 By Geoff Hayes Quarter Scale Managing Technical Production Advertising Ray Mead Single Cylinder A Month Going Regulator Editor Editor Manager Manager Chris Deith Chris Rayward Anna Shenassa Avril Spence Steam Engine 362 Clock plus a Grandmother By Dyson Watkins Version 382 Published by By Peter Heimann TEE Publishing Ltd, The Fosse, Fosse Way, Radford Semele, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV31 1XN, England The London Model Engineering Tel: 01926 614101 Fax: 01926 614293 E-mail: [email protected] Exhibition 2011 364 The Story of a Round-the-pole Website: www.engineeringinminiature.co.uk Report by John Arrowsmith Flash-steam Turbine-powered Produced and Printed by LION - FPG Hydroplane 386 Oldbury Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B70 9DQ Concluded by Dave Sheldrake Tel.: 0121 500 4970 (14 lines) A Gas Fired 5" Gauge Adams Fax: 0121 525 1938 Radial Tank Locomotive 368 By David Beale A Small Steam Plant 388 Richard Wightman completes the details of the fittings Distribution by Comag Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road ‘Wessie’ - The LNWR 0-8-0 West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QX Heavy Goods Locomotive Tel. 01895 433800 www.comagspecialist.co.uk in 5" Gauge 370 BR Standard Class 4 4-6-0 Finding your nearest stockist couldn’t be easier. 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In Our Next Issue FRONT COVER PICTURE Pictured is Ian Jones with his children Abbie • A Gas Burner Design for a 7¼" gauge • Quarter Scale Ray Mead Single Cylinder and Thomas driving his 4" Scale Traction Romulus Narrow Gauge Locomotive Steam Engine Engine - Phoenix the Foster at Kingsbury • Modifications to a Clack Valve • The London Model Engineering Water Park (article on ‘Phoenix the Foster’ Andover & District Model Engineering Exhibition - Conclusion was published in March 2011 issue of EIM). • Society - a double celebration Photograph: Ian Jones May Editorial THE MAY DAY STEAM leading member of the society and the be obtained from Pete Nash at 60 Peveril It is with regret that we have learned society’s president. Clearly, there’s been a Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 8RW. that the May Day Steam event organised lot of research into the old days carried out The society have a well established site at jointly by the Urmston & District Model by many members and when one reads the St Peter and St Paul School with a 2½" & Engineering Society and Lancashire the book, it seems not much detail has 3½" raised track and a 5" & 7¼" ground level Traction Engine Club will not take place been missed. Over the fourteen chapters track. Both tracks are set in woodland and this year. The event has been a regular the history of the society has been fully meander between trees, through cuttings feature in the steam calendar for 29 years covered including previous tracksites and and under tunnels with a difference in level but unfortunately a number of issues have the move to their present site at Ashton of 20ft from the lowest to the highest point. forced the committee to cancel the 2011 Court in the early 70’s. The book has been With this gradient both tracks are regarded event. The major issues the club faced produced primarily for members however as drivers tracks. All Sweet Pea owners are were local authority event authorisation some copies may be available for sale welcome so if you want to participate do changes, continued rise in costs particularly to friends of the society, at £12.50 each contact Pete Nash. the increase in VAT and the extra bank including postage. Anyone interested holiday caused by the Royal Wedding. This should contact the secretary. The Society is would involve an extra days hire and prices to be commended for producing this book have risen accordingly. The committee also which is profusely illustrated both in colour Book Review felt that it was unfair to increase entrance and black and white and is a very detailed, GARDEN RAILWAY MANUAL A charges in the current economic climate. enjoyable work. Full credit to the society in STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO NARROW- The decision had already been taken taking the brave step of publishing it. GAUGE GARDEN RAILWAY PROJECTS that this year’s 30th would probably Author Richard Blizzard have been the last May Day Steam but 100 YEARS AGO TODAY Hardback ‑ 184 pages circumstances have meant its end even 100 years ago today what was claimed ISBN 978 1 84425 715 7 earlier than expected. I am sure that the to be the largest locomotive in the world I am sure most model railway many thousands of visitors who have was completed by the Atchison, Topeka enthusiasts have dreamed of a Garden enjoyed the event over the years will miss and Santa Fé Railway at its works at Railway with unlimited space and scope it greatly. Topeka, USA. Loco number 3000, a Mallet for your imagination to run wild. Your articulated locomotive with a 2‑10‑10‑2 favourite locomotive puffing round the NORTH STAFFS MES wheel arrangement weighed in at 275 garden as you sit in your deck chair with The North Staffs Model Engineering tonnes. She was intended to work goods a pint on a lovely spring day. The stuff Society is celebrating its 75th anniversary trains of 2000 tonnes over the railway’s dreams are made of, if only. Well, this this year and one of the major events they mountain division in Arizona. As water was new book by Richard Blizzard brings that are undertaking is hosting the Northern scarce on this section she had an enlarged dream closer to reality and with modern Association Narrow Gauge IMLEC. They tender which carried 12,000 gallons of Computer Cab Control the possibilities will be present the Narrow Gauge IMLEC at water and 4000 gallons of oil fuel. The for multi‑train operation are endless. It their tracksite in Brampton Park, Newcastle combined weight of the engine and tender covers in nineteen fully illustrated chapters under Lyme on the 4th & 5th June. Full was almost 400 tonnes ‘on the road’. The a range of projects from Track Laying details of the club’s track including videos ten engines proved unsuccessful in service to building a Live Steam Locomotive. and an application form for the Narrow as the boilers could not make steam fast Other chapters cover a multitude of Gauge IMLEC are available from the clubs enough to power them at speed.