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james r
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12 years ago

does anyone know anything about the appearance rhiwbach petrol loco built in 1935 using an austin 7 car engine and gearbox, by 1953 it was lying disused in an old boiler house, it is currently a bare frame at the apedale valley light railway in newcastle under lyme, please could someone give a description or a drawing or even a photograph of what it looked like, controls ,engine position , colour, etc, as we have no pictures or a clue as to what it looked like, if anyone has any info please contact me, my email is [email protected]

james ralphs

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Tamarmole
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12 years ago

I assume that you have seen the article written by Jim Hay who used to own the loco. It appeared in "The Narrow Gauge" in the mid 90s.

If memory serves my foot appears in one of the photos included in the article!

james r
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12 years ago

I dont think i have, as im not old enough to remember, however, when andrew neale first saw it in 1965 it was just an austin chassis on a skip frame.

james r

JohnnearCfon
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12 years ago

I aquired it from Michael Jacob. I later sold it to Jim Hay.

When I purchased it (and sold it) it consisted of a Howard skip frame, an Austin chassis (only front "half" was used in fact) and two axles. Both were off the chassis as the axle boxes were smashed off by Rich Morris and Michael Jacob to enable it to be recovered from the quarry. One axle had a large sprocket fixed to the rear of both wheels. Over normal points it would have been a problem as they were virtually the same diameter as the tread diameter of the skip wheels. Of course, the quarry using stub points, this did not cause a problem.

Are the axles at Apedale?

Tamarmole
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12 years ago

"james r" wrote:
I dont think i have, as im not old enough to remember, however, when andrew neale first saw it in 1965 it was just an austin chassis on a skip frame.

james r

The article is worth searching out

Isn't the NGRS library based at Apedale - failing that if you know "the Neale" he should be able to sort you out (if you see him tell him that Rick Stewart says hello).

james r
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12 years ago

If they are at apedale, they're not with the frame

james