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Charles Wilson was a train driver in Leeds and a skilled model-maker. He built this machine because he loved the original Jenny Linds and probably drive them on the East Coast line. In 1852 he emigrated to Melbourne, Australia and it's unlclear whether he took the machine with him, or built another once settled in Australia

'Atlas' is a 9.5" gauge locomotive thought to have been built around 1890, although the chassis may have been based around a much older locomotive of circa 6-inch gauge. It was bought by an enthusiast in Birmingham in the 1940s, but never steamed well, and was later sold, finding its way to California, USA. After running for a few years it was left standing (with water in the boiler!) until repatriated to the UK a decade later with three carriages. Now under restoration by Freddie Toher, who would welcome any other information.

An 0-4-0 vertical-boilered tank engine, built for Ian Fraser of Arbroath in 1987. After Fraser's death in 1992 it went to the Ravenglass & Eskdale and operated during Galas and 'Thomas' events in the 1990s. After visiting the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, it is now on semi-permanent loan and is not planned to be restored.

This delightful machine was built in 1900, give or take a year or two. Amongst many mysteries is the origin of the machine. We know who built it, but it's not clear whether there was any association with the Caledonian's St Rolox Works in Glasgow, and why the peculiar gauge? It disappears from the records for many years, before reappearing at Rhyl, where the Voryd Lilliput Railway was built to accomodate it by Len Beeland in 1947.

1868 offered to King's College, London, unsure when it went there, some say 1915. 1959-1961 restored by King's College Railway Club. Still there on display.