40k JPEG BRRR #26

Harold Sinclair's loco, heading down the grade
from the beach with Richard McLachlan at the regulator.
This engine had its first steamup in January 1996 but its
tender was not completed until the middle of the year.

38k JPEG BRRR #26

#26 on the through road going past the station.
The club diesel #2970 is parked waiting for its
next turn of duty.

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54k JPEG BRRR #26

#26 in the station. John Olsen is standing behind the
diesel, Quentin McLachlan is driving #26, and Harold Sinclair
contemplates the paintwork.
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59k JPEG SPEEDY

5" gauge, 1" scale 0-6-0T pannier tank loco, designed by LBSC and based on the British Great Western Railway prototype. This loco was built by HVMES club members. Now repainted in black, Speedy is used for training and for driving by members without their own locomotives.

98k JPEG No 777

5" gauge, 1" scale 2-8-2 tender loco, designed and built by Harold Sinclair. This was Harold's first "big" engine and led to his building 7 1/4" gauge models of narrow gauge prototypes, examples of which are in use around the world.

Details are sketchy for the following photos, as they were pulled from a noticeboard in the clubrooms where they've been for years!

68k JPEG Britannia

5" gauge, 1" scale 4-6-2 tender loco. British Railways Standard class 7 express passenger loco from the mid-1950s. This one is named "Sir Christopher Wren" - a bit hard to pick it out onscreen.

76k JPEG MONA

3 1/2" gauge, 3/4" scale 0-6-2T tank loco, designed by LBSC. A good-sized little engine and well able to pull two or three adults.

74k JPEG Freelance 0-4-0

3 1/2" gauge, 1" scale 0-4-0T tank loco. The cowcatcher and black livery is typical New Zealand railway practice.

59k JPEG NER 4-4-0

5" gauge, 1" scale 4-4-0 tender loco. The prototype ran on the British North Eastern Railway, which was amalgamated into the LNER (London and North Eastern Railway) in 1923.

73k JPEG Bush Logging Loco

5" gauge, 1 1/2" scale 4-4-4 bush loco. This interesting model is of a type that saw a lot of use in the New Zealand forests from the late 1880s through to the 1950s. Operation in the forests (or "bush") required flexibility, reliability and total simplicity.

67k JPEG Coffee Pot

5" gauge freelance "coffee pot" loco, using a vertical boiler and a small stationary steam engine. Very interesting!

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