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The Coffee Pot

Dave M

Dave M

Pheasey Born Bumper

It might look like something straight out of a Thomas the Tank Engine storybook but the Coffee Pot was built to order for the Great Northern Division of South Australian Railways.

It came in two parts - the little red engine in front was built in Leeds in England while the exquisite timber passenger coach came from workshops in Birmingham.






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdtLy8CaEew
 
Aaah, so cute. Nice bit of workmanship on those carriages. But would only travel first class dahhhhhlings on account of the extra wood panelling and electric lighting. Thoroughly enjoyed the clip Dave. Thanks. Viv.
 
Dave M said:
It might look like something straight out of a Thomas the Tank Engine storybook but the Coffee Pot was built to order for the Great Northern Division of South Australian Railways.

It came in two parts - the little red engine in front was built in Leeds in England while the exquisite timber passenger coach came from workshops in Birmingham.






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What a delightful thing it is :). I would absolutely love to have a model of that running on my model railway layout but unfortunately my scratchbuilding skills are non-existent so it isn't going to happen!
 
The term coffee pot is often applied to vertical boiler locomotives as were produced by the firms of Chaplin and De Winton. There was one narrow gauge De Winton that worked at the Hatherton Furnaces near Walsall
 
Nearer to home, NE England:
https://beamishtransportonline.co.uk/2009/01/1871-coffee-pot-no-1-rebuild/

These Great Eastern locos were also known as coffee pots. That is due to the shape of the tanks, familiar in some older style cafeterias. A precursor to the Espresso machine I guess.
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The image shown is of an ogee saddle tank. There were various makers of this design in the 1880's Andrew Barclay and Yorkshire Engine Co being two examples.

The Coffee Pot is usually applied to vertical boiler locomotives. The example below was a DeWinton locomotive used on a quarry railway in North Wales. De Winton also supplied a locomotive to work along the Hatherton Furnace narrow gauge railway at BloxwichIMG_20180126_0005.jpg
 
The Australian Railway that refers to the Coffee Pot- this type of engine is called a rail motor where a small locomotive is attached to a coach body. In 2010 the Llangollen Railway assisted with making the locomotive and coach unit that comprise the GWR rail motor , which is a Didcot
 
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