An elevated train double headed by two 'Nigel Gresley' O1 type Great Northern Railway 2-8-0 locomotives passes the ground level steaming bays and heads toward the station.
The Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society
About Our Trains
The Society operates miniature steam locomotives on our trains.
These locomotives are built and owned by our members. It takes
many years to build some of these engines and they have all the
necessary features of a full size locomotive in miniature. Most
of our 5 inch gauge engines are built to a scale of 1 1/8 inch to
the foot although some are 1 1/2 inch to the foot when they are
models of 3 ft 6 inch gauge locomotives. 3 1/2 inch gauge
locomotives are usually built to a scale of 3/4 inch to the foot.
Castings are available from Model Engineering suppliers for some
engines, but many members make their own patterns and organise
castings to build the model they are interested in. Many
locomotives are models of Australian prototypes, including the
famous NSWR 38 class, and 30T, 35, 50, 59 classes. Also
represented in the stud are Victorian, Tasmanian, Western
Australian, English and American models. They operate with boiler
pressures of 80 (for 3 1/2 inch gauge) to 100 pounds per square
inch, and can weigh up to 700 pounds in steam. Typical features
of these locomotives are water feed injectors, axle and steam
pumps and steam and vacuum brakes. Boilers are usually of copper,
bronze brazed and silver soldered together, and built in
accordance with the Australian Miniature Boiler Safety Committee codes. Black
coal or char (a coked brown coal) is used for fuel. Details of
char are here.
Passenger cars are 5ft or 6ft long and are designed for
passengers to sit straddling the car with their feet on
footboards either side. Endboards and a buffer is fitted, and the
running parts are enclosed. The trains are fitted with vacuum
brakes controlled from the locomotive, and a guard rides at the
end of the train to supervise.
MORE RAILWAY SCENES
An elevated train double headed by two 'Nigel Gresley' O1
type Great Northern Railway 2-8-0 locomotives passes the ground
level steaming bays and heads toward the station.
From any railway you can see action views
of whats going on on the other railways. Here a doubled headed
train on the uter main drops downgrade as an elevated train and
van makes its way upgrade.
Amended 14 December 2005