Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2020
Date 23-Oct
Volume 225
Issue 4,650
Page 578
Category Locomotive
Part 1
Title Britannia Class 7 Locomotive in 5 Inch Gauge. A Modelworks Rebuild
Author Norm Norton (Norman Lorton)
Notes Takes a renewed look at this popular, kit-built BR Standard Pacific. Oliver Cromwell on the GCR in Loughborough in 2014, why rebuild a Modelworks locomotive? Don Ashton's Walschaerts' valve gear spreadsheet, weighshaft bracket problems, identification of weighshaft centre and cylinder block edge as a guide, data entry and results pages from Bill Hall's simulator programme, Walschaerts valve simulation, excessive steam lead, references