Built by a time-served Engineer and never run on steam

Mere words and pictures will never do this Loco justice. The builder was a time served Engineer with Dowty’s of Gloucester. He soon discarded the Martin Evans drawings he began with, going off instead to the Isle of Man to measure the full sized loco up. After five years of working full time on the project he has a loco that is so well engineered, so to true to scale, it would win first prize if entered in any Model Engineering Exhibition. The loco has run on air only for two whole days and ticks away like a good clock. It is worth considering that there are only 3 known 7.25" gauge Locos of this type in the world. It is perhaps ironic that being so dedicated to a project, to give so much of yourself can actually work against you sometimes. The loco is so good the builder will never run it. In spite of having his own Railway at home, he simply doesn’t want to get it dirty. That, along with a change of personal circumstances brought him to a decision he never thought he’d need to make. He now intends to sell Caledonia and asked me to handle initial advertising etc. on his behalf. Anyone interested will need similar dedication, similar appreciation of what a feat of engineering this loco really is, and they’ll have to convince me to put them in contact with the builder before making any arrangements for them to see it. If you are that type of person and willing to offer a sum in excess of £15,000 for something you frankly cannot put a price on, then write to me and we’ll see if we can go any further with the idea. If not, then thanks for reading this.

A backhead shot often speaks volumes about build quality
There's two sides to everything...
Even the lubricators are faithful to scale
More backhead
Inside the smokebox. All pipe work unions are stainless where possible.

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