The current locomotive on the stocks is a Great Western Railway class 14XX.
They were actually built as class 48XX in 1932. However, in 1948 the GWR
decided to convert some tender locomotives as oil burners and
numbered in the 48XX range, so the little tanks become 1400-1474. Most were
scraped in the 1960's, but four engines were preserved. One of those saved
was 1466, which this model will be finished as. See photo below of 1466 at
the Great Western Railway Society, Didcot, Oxfordshire. It is my own
photograph.
My mode of operation is having more than loco building at a time. This
enables me, when encountering a build problem, which I find difficult to
solve, to move to another loco. Having carried out work on the second loco,
I revert back to the first and usually come up with a fix for the problem.
Whilst most of the fixes are of my own, others are suggestions from fellow
modellers.
