Steam Locomotive Information

Here is the photo album for Dorking Greystone Lime No. 5 'William Finlay', a 0-4-0T located in Tywyn, Gwynedd. If you would like to suggest additional photos for this album, please click here.

One of the survivors of Fletcher Jennings production with its classic Victorian builder's plate.

Simplicity itself below the running plate. Just a cylinder, connecting rod, coupling rod and wheels.

Between the frames and below the boiler we see the Stephenson link valve gear with eccentrics on the rear (driving) axle. The eccentric rods drive vertically mounted slide valves just inside the frame plates.

The leading axle is quite plain, but notice how the eccentric rod is shaped to pass below the axle.

The smokebox, with the main steam pipes to the cylinders and the long blast pipe reaching up out of sight to the base of the chimney.

The steam dome carries the safety valves on top.

Inside the cab. notice the two bins on either side which are the coal bunkers, The left hand one also contains the handbrake, an unusual location to say the least!

Inside the cab, the low boiler offers a good view forward. The only instrument is the boiler pressure gauge.


Dorking Greystone Lime 0-4-0T No. 5 'William Finlay' Tywyn, Gwynedd, UK	Location: Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Status: Display