The Gowrie Locomotive Trust 

Cylinders The machining of the cylinder castings is now at a very advanced stage. The next part of this process will be the machining of the steamchest covers, together with their mating face on the main cylinder castings, with all the holes drilled and tapped as necessary to attach the covers to the main castings. This will be followed by the machining of the valve faces and the slide valves themselves. Since the above work has not yet started, it is obviously not possible t

In this update you will see that we are again concentrating on the ongoing machining of the cylinder castings, but we are also mentioning other parts that have been worked on recently. We start with the pattern for the handbrake column casting and the actual casting being machined. This now only requires the fixing holes drilling and the mating face where it sits up to the sidetank being formed for it to be finished. What follows is the machining of the bore for the piston ro

John Dunn is progressing well with the machining of the cylinders. What follows is a series of images showing the remaining work on the...