8F 2-8-0 tender axleboxes

[Bob WorsleyParticipant @bobworsley31976]

Many years ago I bought a selection of odd castings from ebay, with no clues as to what they were off.

Quite by accident I found an ME, 1982, and thumbing through it I recognised the axlebox style as used on the 3.1/2″ 8F 2-8-0 Euston then being serialised. The castings I have are larger, but scaling them from the 3.1//2″ drawing to 5″ they match exactly.

The question is, then, who did a castings set for a 5″ 8F loco, probably back in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s. Looking in the only suppliers now existing, Reeves and Blackgates, they don’t do a 5″ 8F.

I have other castings from the same source, some are 3.1/2″, some 5″, no idea if from the 8F or other locos.

The axleboxes could be from similar era LMS locos, Royal Scott, Black 5 etc that used the same 6 wheel tender. Other castings are driving axles horn angles, but ony 6 of them meaning possibly a 6 coupled engine?

It is incredably hard to work back from a casting to a loco, should imagine tipping over the shelving holding dozens of engines would mean a real disaster!

Thanks.

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