5 Inch SE & CR R1

  • This long lived class of tank engines started life in the 1880s as the South Eastern's R class. They were designed by James Sterling and originally had a simple low cab and no dome. They were the first South Eastern locomotives built specifically for shunting and light freight duties with some 25 being produced.
  • In 1899 Harry Wainwright took over as chief mechanical engineer of a combined SE&CR and LC&DR, he set about rebuilding some of the older engines including the R class tank engines.
  • Our model faithfully reproduces this engine in 5' gauge, with all the style and Victorian elegance of the original. It has a copper boiler with both hand and crosshead pumps. There is a screw regulator mounted in the smoke box. Steam from the boiler is superheated and then fed into a cast iron cylinder block mounted between the frames.
  • There are two cylinders 40mm dia. by 50mm stroke, with piston valves operated by Stephenson's link valve gear. A displacement lubricator is mounted under the front footplate, other fittings include whistle, water and pressure gauges, blower, boiler blow down etc.

  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1
  • 5 Inch SE & CR R1

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