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At the recent Llangollen show I bought a secondhand Aristocraft 2-8-2. It had seen some modifications and the plastic valve gear was looking precarious. It also had no tender. I like a challenge and thought at the price I paid the worst outcome would be that I had a lot of spare parts for future projects.
Once home it was tested and ran in both directions well.
The next step was to decide what I should make from the loco. I didn’t need another US 2-8-2 so thoughts went to British prototypes. A Ravenglass minature loco perhaps rather along the lines of my RHDR locos. Instead I opted for looking at mainline locos. There was the Gresley P1s a goods version of his A1/A3 design, but on these the connecting rod drove the second axle. That I think left a few designed but never built locos.
This is where Riddles 8F came in. Essentially it was a goods version of the Britannias which didn’t get off the drawing board due to decisions to build 9F 2-10-0s instead.
So below are some illustrations of progress on creating a BR standard style 2-8-2. Some are posed with my 00 version made many years ago. Just repeating myself on a bigger scale!
Once home it was tested and ran in both directions well.
The next step was to decide what I should make from the loco. I didn’t need another US 2-8-2 so thoughts went to British prototypes. A Ravenglass minature loco perhaps rather along the lines of my RHDR locos. Instead I opted for looking at mainline locos. There was the Gresley P1s a goods version of his A1/A3 design, but on these the connecting rod drove the second axle. That I think left a few designed but never built locos.
This is where Riddles 8F came in. Essentially it was a goods version of the Britannias which didn’t get off the drawing board due to decisions to build 9F 2-10-0s instead.
So below are some illustrations of progress on creating a BR standard style 2-8-2. Some are posed with my 00 version made many years ago. Just repeating myself on a bigger scale!
