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Los 619
An incomplete 3½" Gauge live steam LNER Pacific Locomotive and Tender, appears based upon the one-off Thompson A1/1 rebuild of 'Great Northern', with three cylinders, divided drive and double chimney, almost certainly to LBSC's 'Hielan' Lassie' design: the uncompleted project including substantially complete rolling chassis with wheels, cylinders, rods and most of valve linkages, with screw-operated reversing from footplate, with front bogie and trailing carrying wheels (these are fitted to the frame with lateral sideplay, rather than as a pony truck), boiler components include the main seamless copper boiler tube drilled for rivetting at the firebox end, made-up copper inner firebox with crown stays, forward 'D-section' extension with vertical crosstubes, unattached throatplate and boiler tubes (boiler lacks outer firebox shell and smokebox tubeplate), the smokebox essentially made-up and fitted with double chimney and door, overall F, much finishing work to do, cab, footplating and many smaller parts not present, steel parts with surface rusting but not seized (some easing oil has been applied by our staff), together with an 8-wheeled tender fitted with screw-operated handbrake to all wheels, hand-operated water pump, valve and 4 pipe connections, the sides fitted with raised 'LNER' lettering and rather freelance upper valances, F-G, no boiler history, the lot also includes two short lengths of made-up track to suit engine and tender (qty)
