Help identifying this locomotive?

[JasonParticipant @jason]

[JasonParticipant @jason]

My apologies, couldn’t quite get the pictures and text to fit in the box with these clumsy thumbs. I recently took delivery of a collection of traction engine castings from the dreaded eBay lucky dip. Included in the lot was this rather charming locomotive chassis.

I’m not up on locomotives outside of the world of OO gauge, I’m sure a younger me would have worked this one out.

So just out of curiosity I was hoping someone would recognise it. From memory it’s about 2 feet long and about 3 1/2 wide so assuming 3 1/2 gauge. I would be more specific but the garage is the other side of an already hard frozen garden 🥶!

I did notice Reeves on the castings, pointing to a readily available model perhaps. A bit of armchair sleuthing on a cold night perhaps.

 

Thanks, Jason

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

0-4-2 . if the frames are 3.5 wide then the gauge will be more could be an odd one, 4″ + or even a 5″. The only 0-4-2 that Reeves do in 3.5 and 5″ is Lion and the frames are wrong for that. In 5″ there’s Tom Rolt but that’s outside cylinders. Good luck. Noel.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

You need to measure across the outside of the frames. I very much doubt the 3.5″ dimension.

I’d put a small wager on it being a 14xx

[JasonParticipant @jason]

Thank you for the replies, Gentlemen. I’m sorry for being so late getting an update with this. I should have introduced myself a bit better and set my little scene. I work a lot, have 2 young kids and a wife that would rather me in the house than out in the garage. I’d bet many are on the same road if not a tad further down it than me.

Anyway, I’ll try to better explain this little beauty.

Lenght over buffer beams end to end is 20 ⅜

Width over frames 3⅛

Cylinders 1⅛ x 2¼
<p style=”text-align: left;”>I will upload a picture of the heap of stuff that came along with it, some of it looks relevant. axles of 4¼ lenght and associated bearings, 4 eccentric castings, various linkage parts and 4 buffers.</p>
I think the devil in the detail here is the trailing axle. The more I look at it, in the better light of the dining room table, the more interesting it becomes.  More for the idea that someone started this and has done a tidy job to yet, and either through bereavement or other bad luck, it has turned up on Ebay and eventually here. What I’m saying is that these things don’t expire and have literally a very long shelf life. I don’t mind how long it sits on my shelf, but that time would be made shorter by knowing what eventually it will build into.

Thanks, Jason

 

[JasonParticipant @jason]

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi Jason, I don’t know of any published design that relates to your loco. I also don’t know how a loco where the inside cylinders are as close to the front axle will work, and so the chassis is probably for outside cylinders. So I’m sorry, I can’t help you with this.

Regards Nick.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I don’t suppose the proper cylinders for this loco are represented by the lone one in the tray?

You seem to have assorted parts for at least one other locomotive, with outside cylinders and Walschaerts Gear.

Plus parts for no locomotive (e.g. those worms, if they are not brake screws) – single-cylinder traction-engine perhaps?

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