This petrol driven Hunslett has been around for many years.  It was built to provide a locomotive for the Railway using an early four-stroke lawn-mower engine.   Now generally used as a back-up, it lives under the kitchen sink in the Hut!

A recent addition to the MPD is this 5 inch Sweet Pea, ‘Little Genie’ of a husband and wife team.  The builder sits patiently while steam is raised on a Wednesday morning session.

Long time Member, ‘’Mo’ recently finished this 3.5 inch ‘Tich’, possibly the smallest engine to run round our track.  On its first time out he almost managed a full lap, a blocked blower being the problem.

The Railmotor was another early addition to the PGLR, it says so on the tender.  Still able to pull two carriages of passengers, with very few failures during the season.

Part of the steaming bay showing the Simplicity and an Adams 135.  Simplicity was often the only loco available during the early life of the railway.  Now most members have several locomotives which are suitable for passenger hauling.

Our passenger season starts in March, but this picture shows Warship keeping the track warm (and the driver cold) in April after 4 inches of snow fell overnight.  We still had 12 passengers that afternoon!

LBSC’s design Speedy is a regular performer and is often driven by other members.

The Sturrock 400T is a compound with the low pressure cylinders in the tender.  It looks quite strange when running, the engine wheels are larger than the tender wheels so the coupling rods move at different speeds.  The owner says that it goes better with a non-driving tender, using the high pressure cylinders only.

The locomotive with the most time on the GPLR track is Warship.  It is usually first out the Hut and is running by 1:30 on Sunday afternoons.  Seen here on a wet Saturday being driven buy a visiting junior member of the Crawley Model Railway Society.

Our fervent GWR Member built this 47XX to pull passengers, which it does very well.

We have two Black Fives in the Club, No 5127, is a kit built version, very powerful and a pleasure to drive.

The second Black Five, No 5241, is to the Don Young design and is more to scale than 5127.  It also runs well, having no trouble pulling the passengers round the track.

One Wednesday Morning we coupled the two together.  The leading engine ran with the blower just open and the regulator shut.  The driver did just one lap of the track, saying it was too scary with so much hardware in front of him!

The little ‘Lion’ is easily driven by most members.  Although quite small, it has enough power to pull a full train round the circuit, provide it has a clear run up the banks.  The owner complained recently of serious slipping, what he did not realise was that one of his seven passengers weighed 20 stone and was sitting on the last bogie!

Another view of the 135.  Quite one of the prettiest locomotives that has run regularly in Goffs Park.

The one-off (and not for long either) gas turbine driven GT3 was built by English Electric.  This model is battery powered and has been used consistently on our track.

Most people have never heard of the GT3 so here is a picture of the real thing running a test train up the Great Central.

This GWR coach is propelled by a Collett 14XX, seen here being topped up by our famous ‘bread pudding maker’.  Although it runs well, the coach has not had any passengers riding on it.  The owner hopes to be able to run it on a ground level track some day

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