Q1T - The Tank Engine That Never Was

Q1T - The Tank Engine That Never Was

Posted by grahame at 07:42, 16th June 2026

A fellow member of Bournemouth Model Engineers had started to build a Q1 to my design several years ago. However the project was offered to me, and although I had already completed 2 locomotives as detailed in the Model Engineer series in 2009, I thought I could make use of a third one!

I had an idea in the back of my mind that I had seen a drawing of a proposed 0-6-4 tank engine in print somewhere but couldn't find it, so went ahead with my own interpretation of what a Q1 tank might have looked like.

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