Some of my Gauge 3 rolling stock

[Jon Nazareth]

Blimey, that’s a good opening bid!

Jon

 

[simond]

I imagine the AI nicompoop has automatically added “Wood” as the material…

 

[Mike W]

I try to post here models that I have either built, or had some input to, such as my kit but assembled for me as a test build. But I couldn't resist this which I just bought as it is. A friend commissioned Roger Marsh to build this Claughton to head his train which was loosely based on the 2pm Corridor. Roger says he has built many hundreds of live steam locos and is best known for his Tinkerbell design in 7.25in gauge. It is unusual for him to build a loco powered by electricity. With a Slaters 24v motor/gearbox and batteries in the boiler and tender it has reserves of power, even hauling eight very heavy 12-wheelers. When it came to me the previous owner had "altered" the bogie, which now needs a re-design as it rides too high at the front - a job I keep putting off! Perhaps I'll discuss the carriages another time. Photo taken at the same sadly missed garden in Ampthill that I've illustrated before.

 

[lankytank]

"....sadly missed garden......." along with its' sadly missed owner - one of life's Gentlemen

 

[Mike W]

Throughout the early 1900s Gauge 3 was the most popular modelling scale, and the most respected manufacturer was probably not Bassett-Lowke, but James Carson. Like Lowke, Carson made models in all scales from Gauge 0 to very large, and many non-railway subjects too. Carson are said to have over stretched themselves on a large fixed price project and went into liquidation, whereupon Bassett Lowke was on the doorstep to buy up the designs and stock. This LNWR Experiment was one of Carson's earliest and most successful designs and it was continued by Lowke into the 1930s. High pressure, internally spirit fired, with full Joy valvegear and with all the major dimensions being to scale, this is the model that first attracted me to Gauge 3 in the 1990s, and I really must rebuild it one day! This example is probably 115 years old.