More on the 47606

The 47606 Tank engine was the type of model steam engine we had as young fellas. It was modeled from a real fair dinkum steam engine used in England. The history of this real engine begins on the 31st October 1928 at Beardmore, Dalmuir, Glasgow where it was built. It was designed by the Fowler company and seconded to the Beardmore company as the Fowler workshops had too many steam engines to build. After many years of faithful service it was withdrawn in June 1965 from the Bletchley shed and was scrapped in November of that year. Its class is a Fowler 3F 0-6-0T. The class basically describes the wheel arrangement. In this case no leading front wheels, no trailing wheels but 6 main wheels all connected together to provide a driving power from the steam pistons. The T stands for tank which describes engines that have large water tanks on the sides and do not tow a coal tender but have the coal stored at the rear on the driver's cabin. 

The actual train in service

An early example of an 0-6-0 Jinty

47606's cousin fully restored and still operating

More posts to come on the historical perspective of steam engines in general and the Triang 47606 model steam engine.