Metre Maid 0-6-0T freelance narrow-gauge

Metre Maid is a freelance 0-6-0 narrow-gauge tank locomotive designed by Jack Buckler as a development of his very successful 0-4-0T Sweet Pea design and is similarly simple to build and maintain. Metre Maid retains many of the design features of Sweet Pea using the same castings and having the same marine type boiler and very simple to manufacture Hackworth valve-gear. The six-coupled chassis improves stability over Sweet Pea.

As a very simple free-lance locomotive it can easily be adapted by builders and there are many detail variations reflecting builder's requirements and personalities.

There is no specific build series, but as the design is so similar to Sweet Pea the same construction notes and build book can be used and adapted as appropriate.

Drawings and castings are available from Blackgates Engineering.



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