7 1/4" Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway Number 12 First Test Fire

A film of our putting the very first test fire in this rather lovely brand new loco. Built over a period of nearly 30 years by Bob Butler, this rather awesome 7 1/4” gauge Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway Hudswell Clarke 4-8-0 will hopefully become the flagship of our running steam fleet at High Legh Miniature Railway.
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[@rajendranmani114]

Amazing lovely steam LOCO, I AM really lucky to see such a nice senario, ❤😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@laurencemicol7358]

Always thought this would be a great loco to build . The full sized ones were the largest tender locomotives to operate on the Irish Narrow gauge system. Congratulations on a wonderful build ,and bringing one back to life again!!

[@eettwward]

Big giants

[@barryphillips7327]

Incredible amount of work to make such a machine, EVERY PART MADE BY IT,S OWNER by hand or milled from a solid blank, thousands and thousands of hours!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lowrangemaniac5326]

25 years of work well spent! What a little piece of machinery!💪💪

[@MrEdmundHarris]

That's bloody impressive - what a lovely bit of work!

[@sjv6598]

25 wonderful years of enjoyment? I’m more a woodworker/hobby metalworker, something I always say is “the joy is in the making” 🙂 I can’t believe you’re only in Liversedge, I must have passed your units dozens of times going to a buddies house 🙂

[@Xldevil]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece of craftsmanship.

[@hedgehogm6203]

Wonderful nice to see someone build something different other than the usual standard gauge. Looks like excellent workmanship just one thing, you may know this but the chopper hook was on upside down.

[@highdownmartin]

A strong looking engine. Looking very handsome and eight coupled as well

[@adambridgewater]

I think this is the point where they stop being rich men's toys and start to become genuine working small full-size steam engines

[@francescoferrigno2339]

Look at the rhdr and then come back to that opinion 😂😂 nah jk

[@strangehappenings8961]

Such a smooth runner!! Very well timed!!! 👏

[@derekferguson385]

Fantastic!!! Even the chuff is impressive.

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! 25 years of weekend and daily job free time work invested. A lot of effort with an incredibly amazing and impressive result. Congrats! Best regards, luck and health to all of you.

[@unclemarksdiyauto]

Very cool train! Looks beautiful. You did a great job! Enjoy!

[@dallasgolding5079]

Sounds lovely great job

[@KwaKwatsenrE]

Damn good job! I really like steam engined Train's and the thing you were making it 25 years is Unbelieavable! (If you read this have a nice day :))

[@StanFerris]

Wow! Beautiful!

[@johnhooper7040]

What a great little loco, congratulations! It would be great to see some video of it in action hauling trains

[@SDE1994]

what a beauty

[@brproductions248]

Looks lovely. Such a good engine

[@johnrayfield11]

Lovely Job !

[@shug831]

Nice, but 25 years in the making!

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

Many of our models are built over a great many years by hobbyist model engineers. They are complete works of art that can also be fired and run. 🙂

[@mikeking2539]

Your videos are great 😃👍💯😸 w

[@k.rot9175]

Very impressive :-)

[@daverushton5966]

What A Lil Beauty .

[@terrier_productions]

Very cute

[@xabulidema9454]

A question: In the firebox one could see some not tightened nuts. What are they for? Anyhow for what are nuts there?

[@mattseymour8637]

Lovely engine. Is that soft dry Welsh steam coal you are using?

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

More or less, it’s Welsh Anthracite small nuts,….. and welsh steam coal is also an anthracite.

[@mattseymour8637]

@@TheSteamWorkshop cool im with you so you basically mix the harder anthracite Welsh coal with the softer long flame Welsh coal?

[@jockellis]

Gorgeous. Did the British use the Whyte naming system? Snd how were the number plates made?

[@isaacboettcher2970]

Whats the investment in something like this man hours cost etc. Looks amazing sounds great!

[@carlmalone4011]

How much do you pay to work there ? ☺

[@catcat1352]

Will it be put for sale or do you keep it in your workshop?

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

This is one that we intend to keep and operate at our miniature railway in Manchester. 🙂

[@bharatg124]

Can it pull a car..

[@highdownmartin]

Easily

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

Extremely easily. 😁

[@raytylicki9001]

How much $$$$ did you put into this? Expensive hobby

[@HustleMuscleGhias]

I'm sure if the builder knew how much he spent he'd probably jump off a bridge and if his spouse found out, he wouldn't have to jump!

[@outlawflyer7868]

Is this a kit that one can purchase as "buy as you build"?

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

Sadly not. This is a unique scratch built one off. We would consider producing it as a kit, we have all the patterns to make castings, but it certainly wouldn’t be a cheep thing to do.

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

@tacfoley I fear it would cost significantly more than that these days. Possibly as little as £20,000 for the boiler, castings and raw materials for the build, and then a full time professional model engineers wage for around 2 years,….. if all goes well. I reckon £100,000 minimum, and even that would almost certainly be too tight for us to be able to be confident about making a profit. I think at £150,000, we’d feel confident enough that there was enough money available to buy enough time to ensure that we could do a good enough job, comparable to this loco. 🙂