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Cardiff Railway 0-6-0PT no. 2

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:36 am
by andrewnummelin
At Scaleforum yesterday I noticed a kit on Judith Edge's stand that looks very similar to the Cardiff loco.
http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/judithedge/kit/447
In the books I have the class of the Cardiff loco is not given, and I've not come across a drawing on-line of the Consett loco with which to compare it.
Does anyone have any more information?

Re: Cardiff Railway 0-6-0PT no. 2

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:11 pm
by Tim Birch
Andrew,
I have looked a the drawing of a Kitson long boiler loco prepared by R M Drake Brockman in the September 1974 edition of the Railway Modeller. This certainly looks like the Judith Edge loco. It has a coupled wheel base of 6'11" + 4'11" with overhangs at front and rear of 5'5" and 8'5" respectively. Mountford's book on the Cardiff Railway has an outline drawing of CR No2 as Kitson works number 2458 of 1882, and shows a coupled wheelbase of 6'4" + 4'5" with the overhangs being 6'10.5" and 8'8.5".
Clearly the overall look is very similar and in 4mm scale the difference in wheelbase is fractionally over 4mm.