Stirling Single Spotted!

"mindesign" wrote

Probably a kit. I've no recollection of this being ready-to-run, even in very limited numbers.

John.

That subject caught my attention!

On 10/01/2005 20:49, mindesign wrote,

Unfortunately you've misread the page. The 3 photos on the right are from Autocom. The Stirling Single comes under the "Alan Gibson" heading where it says "Simon was in the middle of scratch-building the Stirling Single". Simon being Simon Hill, who is one of Alan Gibson's colleagues.

You mean except for the famous Triang model?

(kim)

"kim" wrote

That's NOT a Stirling Single!

John.

Doh!

This is:-

(kim)

No. That is the Caledonian Railway.

The Stirling single was Great Northern. Outside cylinders, domeless boiler.

For the last 37 years I assumed they were one and the same!

(kim)

The Stirling single is the second one sown in the right-hand column:

Yres, I already found and posted a Gauge 1 image in response to John Turner. Here is another:-

(kim)

sorry Kim - different loco

:)

Steve

ps.

I will scan the image in mag. and post

bugger :(

oh well..... the hunt continues

Steve

Drummond by Neilson, not Stirling.

company

There *was* a Kitmaster model of the Stirling single, though. Andy Kirkham

In message , John Turner writes

Exactly, I mean that heap from Donny doesn't look nearly as good as a Drummond single...

I'd doubt that. The only Drummond singles - his engines for the NBR during his first years there, based very closely on Stroudley's early singles - were pretty enough things, but no more so than Pat Stirling's 7' and 7'7" inside-cylinder engines (the 8' engines were a bit of an aberration in Stirling's later career, being close relatives of his early express engines for the G&SW). The one Drummond-era Caledonian single - 123 - was a private venture by Neilsons and is described by Ahrons as a Neilson design, not a Drummond - though it used a boiler and machinery which were very close to standard CR Drummond-era practice. Whether Drummond built any singles himself after the NBR ones depends very much on whether you count the L&SW double-singles, but they'd win no palm for beauty.

Back to modelling - didn't one of the gauge 1 manufacturers do a 7'7" Stirling single some years back, or was it a one-off?

yup - after 3 weeks back in the hobby I have 3 plus a Dean

:)

Steve

The best looking single: Dean Great Western

Worst: Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Camelback Vauclain compound

I presume you /don't/ mean No.9, in any of its forms :) Nor the convertibles in their uncoverted form.

Naa. 'John Stevens' of the Camden and Amboy - an easy win.

That said, the Stevens was not without a certain perverse appeal. Mike Sharman rated it highly as a modelling subject (in 'The Crampton Locomotive').

I knew there was a picture somewhere. It's the valve gear above the boiler line which sets it apart. That and the cab. And the tender. And.. oh, the rest of it.