Rich, Happy to. I am building a Port class Hunslet in 7.25" (1/3 scale). The frames are laid and the boiler complete. I have a complete set of drawings, they are by Roger Marsh. I live in Trowbridge and happy to entertain visitors. There is a Port Class at the Bredgar and Wormshill Railway, I was made to feel very welcome and allowed to crawl all over and under to take pictures and measurements. I would give more details, but I am over 3000 miles away from my drawings in Beijing although I fly back today (its 06:55 here). e-mail me on peter AT puffernutter DOT co DOT uk and we'll see the best way of communicating. Cheers Peter On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:27:11 +0100 (BST), "R.L. Roebuck" <rlr20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there All, > > I've a few observations and questions which I thought I'd throw out there > to the group incase they drummed up any interesting conversation. > > 1) Whilst surfing the interweb last evening, I came across the following > site detailing the construction of a Lynton and Barnstaple 2-6-2 in > 7.25" gauge... > > http://www.mizensrailway.co.uk/Images/Loco/Locos/Davids%20Loco.htm > > ...this looks like quite an impressive beast, but I was a bit taken aback > by the frame thickness of 20mm. Is this kind of thing the norm for Milner > locomotive designs? > > 2) The thing I was actually looking for was drawings for some of the 4 > foot wheelbase Hunslet quarry locomotives formerly of North Wales. I've > got hold of the book which is the respected source on the subject as > talked about by this page... > > http://www.quarryhunslet.mste.co.uk/public/intro.php > > ...but only the drawings smaller and larger hunslets are detailed in the > book, whereas the drawings for all but the smallest of the Penrhyn > locomotives are missing. Does anyone have any ideas where drawings can be > obtained from for the Penrhyn 'Large Quarry' and/or the Penrhyn 'Port' > class hunslets? Ie... > > http://www.quarryhunslet.mste.co.uk/public/Bill_Harvey.php > http://www.quarryhunslet.mste.co.uk/public/Winifred.php > > ...to me they just have the edge over the other variants which seem to > be more commonly modelled. > > 3) In looking through a book detailing full size boiler construction, it > looks like it was common place to construct a subassembly of inner and > outer firebox all on one piece with backhead the throatplate fitted. Then > as the final stages of assembly the boiler barrel, front tubeplate and > tubes would be added. Why do we not do this in miniature? Am I missing > something here - as we end up having a much larger mass of copper hot for > the fitting of all the stays, all the backhead bushes, foudation ring etc, > whereas with the full size method they keep the size of the 'beast' down > for all the fiddly bits, right up till the end of the job? > > Anyway, is there's anyone out there who fancies a bit of a chat on any of > the above subjects? > > > Yours, > > > Rich. > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject > line. MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.