| Year | 1989 |
| Date | 18-Aug |
| Volume | 163 |
| Issue | 3,855 |
| Page | 224 |
| Category | Locomotive |
| Part | |
| Title | Overture & Beginners. A few ideas to aid the novice locomotive builder |
| Author | Martin Evans |
| Notes | Wheel turning, machining eccentrics, driving Bruce Ellis's Caribou, keeping slide valves on their port faces, leaking cylinder drain cocks, drilling coupling rods, valve setting with Stephenson gear, bushes in boilers, leaking safety valves, making backhead fittings, Natal by Bruce Ellis, Martin's Jinty chassis, 5"g. Metro by S.Taylor, Rob Roy by Andrew Smith |