The White Flower Valley Railway

16mm Narrow gauge fun in the garden.

Welcome to the Locomotive works

All locomotives currently out of service or under construction will feature here.

Currently we have a bit of a back log in the loco shop, MELODY our Merlin loco is in for a new boiler and to have the rebuild and detailing work completed. The valve gear also needs re setting, oh and the driver has a broken foot that needs re gluing, so not a lot of work then!

 

This is MELDOY as purchased, still with her ICH DIEN plates, shown on Alan Walkers line in Nothholt UK

This is her as far as the rebuild got while I was still in the UK, some of the modifications are rivets on the cab and buffer beam, frames for the windows and an opening door for the smokebox and a nice copper chimney cap, well you have to have something to polish.

Finally here are a couple of shots of the build in progress, including the new boiler components.

The WFVR’s first locomotive was GRAHAM a 0-4-0 diesel. This loco is built from brass sheet and features adjustable louvers. S/He is currently out of service for unknown reasons. Work will start on Him/her as soon as MELODY is back in revenue earning service.

GRAHAM at Corris on Alan walkers NWRGR in Northolt UK

Here is the louver operating mechanism.

Every 16mm Line needs a mamod to frustrate you, here is ours. She was brought the same time as MELODY and like MELODY she was put straight into the works. Since then little has happened. She has had new frames and bodywork, but she is still waiting for final assembly and painting.

Here she is in as brought condition.

This is what happened to her.

She has had new frames, a regulator and wheels were purchased from PPS when they still did Mamod parts. This is as far as the re build got before a move to Australia got in the way

Like many I can’t help starting a new project long before the last is finished, here is my latest. I am building two of the proposed Bruce Pebbles PB&SSR electric locos. It is understood they would have run in multiple so I decided to build two so I could simulate this. I have scratch built a chassis from brass and they are powered by a Maxon motor and gear box. This photo shows the unpowered version.

Work has continued on the two PB&SS Rly loco’s. Here is the first shot of them together, the interiors are next to be finished. Then we can get on with the painting! I’ll have to order some transfers.

A couple more shots of the PB&SS Rly Locos, the first showing the results of several hours masking….

 

…followed by serval seconds of spraying.

 

Here is the interior showing the basic shapes to make it look like there is something there.

 Just a quick shot showing one of the loco's painted I am still trying to make up my mind about painting the ends vermillion and the exact lining style.

 

A quick shot of the paint job on one of the PB&SSR loco’s I think the simple vermilion lining sets the boxy body off quite well. The figure is a P&J models figure and has been painted to represent a fitter who has been called to look at a problem with the loco.

 

Well I managed to find a use for the CNC mill to help with these loco’s, the roof ribs have been machined out of MDF using a 2mm cutter, smaller would have been better. I am quite pleased with the ogee form on the ends of the ribs; I think this would have been a likely bit of Victorian extravagance. Now all I need to do is finish the collectors, add some transfers and a bit of light weathering and they will be ready for service.

 

Well here they are, very nearly finished, I am quite happy with the collectors. I think they look quite nice. They are shown pulling the Festiniog Railway hears van on the Colin Binnie memorial train. I am still waiting for some handles from Brandbright and transfers from Blackham then I can start the weathering.

The final loco in the shop is a BRAZIL class locomotive which is being built from the Keith Buchlitch plans available from the 16mm Narrow gauge association. So far we have just had these parts laser cut. Soon more work will comense. I purchased the plans from Keithhimself and a web site describing construction is to be found here at http://www.geocities.com/minidampf/brazil_uk/contents.html

Having carried out a number of modifications to enable batch production of my BRAZIL I have nearly completed the wheels. I made sufficient for three locos so it looks like I’ll be building three! How fun.

 
Here she is up on her own four wheels!

Progress so far, here she is with the buffer beams in place, the axel box rivets in. The rear spacer and boiler saddle fixed, and the bearing retaining bar in place. The cab foot plate and front foot pate are just balanced in place. The two misshapen lumps are my incorrectly assembled rear spacers, looks like I’ll be making some more of them tomorrow!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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