A 15″ gauge freelance 0-6-0 built by Jack Lemmon-Burton in the 1950’s for his estate railway near Hickstead in Sussex. After his death in 1994 BWLR bought this loco and all of his private garden railway with a to construct it at The Warren running alongside our 2′ line. This is the last item of that collection left and has been in our museum on static display for most of this time.
She’s a superbly engineered machine, the valve gear being
particularly nicely machined and still in very tight condition with no appreciable wear and tear. Certainly the loco has been dry stored and on a plinth in a museum for some considerable time so it’s not seen a great deal of use. It’s visited the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in the past for a play, and certainly ran at Jack’s original railway, but beyond that it’s not had much use at all. Certainly the boiler, which is of traditional riveted steel construction with expanded tubes appears to back this up and is in very good condition with solid and consistent plate thicknesses showing under our initial ultrasonic tests.
There are a couple of large, original Gresham & Craven injectors fitted and a rather beautiful mechanical lubricator.
It will be provided with a fresh ticket at The Steam Workshop if you want her. More pictures and information on their website.
For sale at best offer. Guide £37,500.
This is a lot of Locomotive for the money.