This is a detailed scale model kit for adult collectors. Not for children under 14 years old.
This model kit is based on the locomotives built by Andrew Barclay for the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Raiway. This railway was a 6 mile 2'3" gauge line that ran across the Argyll peninsula in Scotland. It was Scotland's only passenger carrying narrow gauge railway. Originally operated by smaller machines from Kerr Stuart and Andrew Barclay, the latter went on to produce two handsome 0-6-2T locomotives that became the stalwarts of traction on the line between 1907 and the lines closure in 1934.
The kit has been produced using original drawings from the Andrew Barclay archive. The only notable difference is that the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway added buffers to the locomotives upon their arrival from Andrew Barclay, but in order for the model to negotiate 12" and 9" curves it has been necessary to omit these from the model.
This is an advance kit. The body is in a several pieces, with roof and cab interior to fit. The Graham Farish 08 chassis requires significant modification to complete, in this case replacing the frames and all the motion and flycranks. There is also valve gear, with several delicate pivoting components to assemble.
This kit has been printed in new HD resin, which is darker in finish to the parts shown in the photographs.