I've never seen this picture before!

[ian holmes]

Locomotive #2 on the Sylvasprings watercress farm. It carries the name Watercress Express. I had heard tales of Locomotive number 2 but never seen a picture until now.
Scroll down until you see "Doddings Farm Second Engine"
http://twc.himac.co.uk/about/history/

[Catweasel]

Interesting wee beastie. Shouldn't be too difficult to size it. Yatton Engineering do a 7/8th scale kit of the Jesty in both it's forms and it would make an interesting companion for it. I've taken the liberty of sending a copy to them, with the Gnatterbox as the source.

[chris stockdale]

Hi Ian,

See, it doesn't pay to stay away from the Gnatterbox

check out:

http://forum.gn15.info/viewtopic.php?t=9527

cheers,

[ian holmes]

Thanks Stockers:
Good stuff. Locomotive number 2 will have to be a project for the refurbishment. I should be able to work that around a 24.5mm Tenshodo SPUD

[Willow Creek Traction]

It sure is worth modeling. I wonder what scale it would come out as using a 45mm gauge Hartland Locomotive Works 4 wheel Mack's wheelbase as starting point and built proportionally from there.

[Catweasel]

At a guess,I'd say the wheelbase of No2 is about 3 feet. Therefore, if 45mm is 18", the wheelbase would come out at 90mm, or 3.5 " Divide that by 3 and you would have a scale of just over 1" per foot. 1.16 or there abouts. You would have a model approx 9" long!

[Nevadablue]

Thanks for the link! There are some great pictures there along with the history. I really thought that the watercress farm was made up. Looks like it was a pretty good size business.