Canterbury Lamb 'Invicta' 0-4-0 1829

Canterbury Lamb is a 3 1/2" gauge design by LBSC representing the 0-4-0 Steam Locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1829 named 'Invicta' and designed for working the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway.  The prototype locomotive still exists and is on display in Canterbury Museum.

In order to make a working live steam engine that would haul an adult driver LBSC did not design an exact copy of 'Invicta' but the resulting loco retains the principal characteristics of the original. It is equipped with slip-eccentric valve-gear, as was the original, but does not have any reversing linkage, reversing being accomplished, as usual, by moving the loco slightly in the intended direction of movement.

The overall length of the locomotive and tender is 18" and the driving wheel diameter is 3".

LBSC wrote a construction series complete with a full set of drawings in Model Engineer Magazine (UK) commencing in Volume 107, issue 2668, 10th July 1952 and ending in Volume 108, issue 2713, 21st May 1953. The section covering boiler fittings, printed in Volume 108, issue number 2697, 29th January 1953 appears under the incorrect heading "Britannia in 3 1/2" gauge" due to an editorial error.

Drawings and castings are available from Blackgates Engineering, GLR Kennions, and Reeves 2000.