5 inch Gauge BR Standard Class 7 70000 Britannia Live Steam Locomotive

Eleven long years in the making but Jack's Lovely fine scale scratch built Britannia makes it's inaugural run at Walton Park.
This is a highly detailed but functional model, all the detail is scratch made with no use of lost wax castings or shop bought fittings.

[@maxbuckley4460]

Jack who made this engine, is sitting with me looking at all your kind comments and thanks you all . jack has not got a computer as he spends all his time working on engines ( not all his)

[@marknewell7355]

I've inherited my grandfather's Britannia and black five and a 4mt witch is unfinished he sadly passed before he could finish it and all the locomotives sat for years while he was unwell. As a child I used to stay with him and watch him make them in his shed he was well know for making boilers him self and testing them the point I'm getting to is I saw all the blood sweat and tears going into making these so thank Jack for a beautiful locomotive.

[@CDSMEcreators]

This magnificent model captures the thrill I got as a kid watching Britannia and others of her class tearing through Bangor station in North Wales pulling the Irish Mail express, or occasionally pulling the Emerald Isle express, which stopped in Bangor. Britannia is on static show at York, but is quite different when stone cold.

[@JawTooth]

Wow, you guys have some fun trains over there!!

[@mattseymour8637]

Lovely loco! she is a fine example of the brittiania class!

[@soundnicetome8814]

What a superb engine...Britannia`s were my favourite type. Hats off to you sir...I envy anbody who has the ability to built such an excellent loco...steam forever eh?

[@wurlitzer895]

Absolutely agree with your words. It's a wonderful testament to Jack's commitment, skills and craftsmanship. A remarkable and entirely laudable achievement.

[@grahamsengineering.2532]

Beautiful engine that brings back memories of myself driving my grandfathers 2.5"ga Australian C38 when I was a wee lad.

[@robertsowden1454]

What a beautiful model. I'm currently saving for one. I would love to have one of these.

[@ringeradam4575]

Gorgeous! I would love one of these if we ever get the money

[@barryhughes9764]

A true work of art.....nothing less.

[@activetube9827]

Amazing locomotive I am building a garden railway soon

[@RanjeetKumar-np2pc]

It's so cool

[@kellyashfordtrains2642]

Music to my ears.

[@rweezy3604]

I think the Class 7’s are my favorite type of BR Standard Locos (Like if you agree)

[@cadser0engco]

Truly a great engineer. Well done. One question. Do you notch it back when running?

[@Ajay_Kumar-uq8rd]

Lifetime dream to own one. What would be the cost to build and maintain. It is Awesome.

[@richardcdean6776]

Hello Jack, my father started a 3-1/2" 7 series Britannia a few years before he passed. I , his retired son has it. Can you advise me on acquiring drawings and cast parts for this 4-6-2 steam engine? Thanks, Richard

[@ianspencer9837]

Richard C Dean drawings and castings for the 3 1/2” Brit are available from Blackgates Engineering

[@marknewell7355]

Yeah blackgates engineering have helped me tremendously with my inherited trains 5 inch brit black 5 and a unfinished 4mt they go above and beyond for you and have a great love for the hobby also enjoy ribbing us noobs blackgates engineering and the steam workshop also watch keith Appleton here on KZbin ohh also craig who's building a 5 inch gauge 9F user name no23mk2

[@RanjeetKumar-np2pc]

What is the cost of thst

[@Sam_Green____4114]

why the dual gauge track?

[@cadser0engco]

Sam Green because they run 3-1/2" locos as well.

[@jmadd9000]

How much weight can those scale locomotives pull? They seem to be able to pull a few adults no problem. Fantastic locomotive!

[@ukmodelengineering]

Hi jmadd9000, that is a difficult question to answer, it depends a lot on the model, the Britannia in this video will pull 20 passengers with ease. The most I know of for a 5 inch Gauge model of a British Standard gauge locomotive was a 9f 2-10-0 made by Jim Ewins and named 'Lode Star', it pulled 89 passengers at an estimated haul of 2.75 tonnes.

[@jmadd9000]

Wow thats very impressive. How much pressure is your boiler capable of producing?

[@ukmodelengineering]

jmadd9000 the boilers working pressure is 100 PSI.

[@jimmurphy6095]

@@ukmodelengineering Do you know about what the horsepower rating of it would be? Awesome build, from stack to track. Well done indeed.