Foster Single Cylinder Traction Engine
This is a Foster Single Cylinder Traction Engine whose name is 'Pioneer', built 1914 Works No 13111, 8nhp. It was supplied new to J. W. Desborough & Sons of Wiggenhill, Kings Lynn. Then in 194 it was purchased by the present owner William Carlisle from Ballynahinch. Who for the next six years carried out an extensive overhaul including a new firebox, boiler barrell and backhead and tubes to make it what it is today.
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They say "a picture can say a thousand words" so what could this one say?
Keith Figzer and his son Calum
This is what it takes when you own one of these beautiful locomotives. Love, dedication and a lot of hard work.
Showing his young son Calum what lies ahead in the future is Keith Figzer.
Living Wagon
Living Wagon
Irene Minish with Jack and Jessicia Minish
Now this chap on his minature steam Road Locomotive flew past me that quick I did not get a chance to ask him his name, so if you know him please let me know.
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Looking out from their living wagon is Irene Minish with and I still don't belive it her grandchildren Jack and Jessicia Minish. They had all slept there last night and Jack thought it was fantastic.
Called 'Living Wagons' this is where the families lived as they travelled around the country working.
Behind it is a Ransomes Simms & Jefferies Compound Traction Engine, built in 1932 it is one of the last three engines to leave the Ransome factory in Ipswich after being sold to Arthur Cole of Norfolk. This engine is unusal in that it has been fitted with a 3rd speed gear. It was bought in 2009 by Finn Lynch of Blackrock, Dundalk.
" Now where did you tell me the gears are?" Reply " Why, oh why, after all these years do I still come with him?"