£150 (including P&P within the UK - for international shipping, contact us here)
Inspired by the Furzebrook Railway, SECUNDUS.
Built to a gauge of 2’8” by G. E. Bellis & Co. In 1874, and not as often reported, by Bellis & Seeking of Birmingham, Seeking having left the business in 1866.
SECUNDUS was ordered from Bellis and spent its entire working life on the Furzebrook Railway, which was owned and operated by the Pike Brothers’ Dorset Clay business.
It was overhauled several times by Stephen Lewin’s Poole Foundry, which may account for some of the odd fittings found on the engine, safety valve bonnet, etc.
An 0-6-0 well tank locomotive, with outside frames, the engine had a marine-style boiler, an overall low centre of gravity and was much favoured by the crews at Furzebrook.
Finally retired in 1955, SECUNDUS, the only surviving Birmingham-built locomotive, was saved by the Birmingham Locomotive Society and presented to the Museum of Science and Industry in Birmingham.
There the engine remained for many years; it is now on loan from the Birmingham Museum Trust and under the custodianship of the Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum, located at the Swanage Railway Museum in Corfe Castle, Dorset, where (we believe) it is on display.
JANET is named in honour of a close friend and customer, without whose input we would have likely given up!
Intended as a 45mm gauge model, it is also available in 32mm gauge and utilises our new "No 9" 0-6-0 chassis kit, which comes with JANET.
With 3D printed parts from filament & resin, and laser-cut acrylic. The kit contains motor, gears, wheels, metal stock, nuts, screws, etc. Everything needed to build the model in the photograph(s), excluding paint and adhesives.
Supplied with a 3/6v motor and Peter Binnie wheels.
Building instructions are included with the kit, which is reasonably easy to construct and requires glue, paint, basic tools, and batteries to complete.
Model Dimensions -
Length (over buffers) - 232mm
Width - 112mm
Height (from railhead to chimney-top) - 154mm
Rigid Wheelbase – 96mm