Description
LNER J67/1 and J69/2, GER R24 Holden 0-6-0T,
Finney & Smith – Connoisseur etched kit. This is the Shunting version of the narrow tank buckjumper. Wheel base 6’ 4” + 7’ 6”. The first 140 Buckjumpers as built with narrow tanks and as 45 reached the LNER. Only 3 of the early J67/1 narrow tank engines were passenger fitted with taller tanks in LNER days, the other 42 were shunters as represented by the kit without condensing apparatus. The few with higher pressure boilers were J69/2. The correct wheels for a J67 are:
Passenger locomotives (generally not as per the kit), drivers 4’ 0” 12 mm 10 spoke pin between, 20” stroke (in line and 22” stroke according to Sharman but I think that would be the iron 15 spoke shunter wheel rather than the 10 spoke steel wheel)
Most shunting only Buckjumpers as in this kit had cast iron wheels with 4’ 0” 12 mm 15 spokes, pin in line, 22” stroke.
