5" Stephenson's Rocket

Here we have another fairly rare beast.  An absolute gem of a 5" gauge Stephenson's Rocket by OS models in Japan.  We don't see many of these come through, and unlike many 'kit built' locomotives, all OS locomotives are exceptionally well engineered,  collectible and certainly don't carry the stigma attached to other commercially made products.  We are always impressed by the level of engineering and finish that they achieved.  It's covered in beautiful little lost wax castings to give it the detail, which give it a really attractive 'x' factor for anyone wanting a very lovely toy.

This is the first one that we've had finished in the varnished wood and blacked steel rather than the more obvious yellow, and it's absolutely beautiful for it. It came to us all the way from Sweden as part of a fine collection, and although it has been run, there are no signs of that externally, only the soot in the smoke box to give it away. It's certainly not been run very much at all as for obvious reasons it's not particularly powerful a machine and practically it's no good for passenger hauling.  With a steady hand on the regulator and a reasonably flat railway it'll pull the driver round happily, but it's certainly not going to be winning any heavy haulage competitions!  That's not what this little beauty is about though.  This is a display model that you can steam up every now and again to give everyone a rare treat, and it'll certainly be a crows puller when it does run!

There's a crosshead water pump with bypass and a hand pump nicely tucked out of sight on the tender, and lubrication is mechanical on the footplate. It comes as with all our finished models with fresh hydraulic tests and a fresh steam test.