Bridget the Tram completed

Submitted by andrew.sdr on

Low End Works's latest new-build project Bridget the Steam Tram has been completed and the loco was outshopped on 26 March 2023.

Special features of this new locomotive are:

  • Mamod vertical boiler
  • Mamod 2-cylinder vertical oscillating steam motor
  • Gear drive to one axle and transmission to other axle is by side rods
  • Fueled on LPG
  • Condenser unit installed to dry the exhaust steam
  • Dual Concentric Chimney allows exhaust steam to be separated from exhaust gasses
  • Steam regulation is by manual control of steam regulator wheel
Bridget in Erecting Shop
Bridget at Beckfoot 26-3-2023
Bridget at Beckfoot pic 2