Hawkerhellfire

This Channel on Youtube is excellent, its a chap who used LGB trains to kit bash his way to an extensive Garden railway. Well worth a look.

That's very advanced from the last time I saw a photo of it! Just a pile of bits and a bit of bodywork. Fair play to them. New build steam gets a lot of attention but a fair few diesels got the chop too and had no survivors. I wonder if there are enough madmen out there to attempt a Fell Diesel new build!

Described in "A Decade of Steam on CIE in the 1950s" Excellent book from the enginemans perspective. The same men write with adoration of the comparatively ancient "F2" 2-4-2 No 433 so they weren't anti steam.

850 had a fair bit more wrong with her than a tendency to roll. Poor steaming and and a habit running hot slidebars and bearings from memory. She was a handsome engine though. I was only thinking of 850 yesterday and her accident running into a turntable pit. Does a picture exist of that event?