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Paintings by Jonathon Clay & used with permission. More details at www.jonathanclay.co.uk

EDM Models is delighted to have reached agreement with Alan Gibson to re-introduce his kits for the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway 2-6-2 loco motives Yeo, Exe, Taw and Lew later this year. The kits are 7mm Scale and can be built for either 16.5 or 14mm gauge.

There are two kits for these locomotives: -

Kit #1   Yeo, Exe & Taw

This kit makes any one of the three original engines built for the railway by Manning Wardle in 1897.

Kit #2   Lew

This kit makes Lew which was the very similar loco ordered for the line by the Southern Railway after it took over the railway at grouping. Lew was delivered in 1925 and whilst basically the same as the original engines has many detail differences

Currently we plan to reintroduce these kits toward the end of 2007 and the quantity produced will be dependant upon the number of reservations recieved.
Reservation Special Offer
The reservation special offer price originally offered is now withdrawn. This was offered for the first 50 of each model to be reserved.
Reserve One Now

A lot more work than originally expected is going it to retooling the chassis with the intention of removing the kits reputation as difficult to build. The additional work is taking a lot longer than expected and has forced an increase in price.

 

The lucky 50's with early reservations will still get theirs at the offer price.

 

The price of the kits now is £245 with a £50 deposit reserving your engine. The £50 would be paid on placing your reservation and is held in our reserve account until the kit is ready to be delivered. The balance of £195 will be due as the kit is ready to ship. Our normal reservation T&C's apply. Please note that in normal circumstances the deposit is non refundable as detailed in the T&C's

 Reservation T&C's

Kit #1   Yeo, Exe & Taw @£245
Kit #2   Lew                     @£245

 

Retail Sales
A small number of kits over and above the reserved quantities will be produced. These will be available on a first come first served basis and will retail at the £245 price, or even slightly more. It is then envisaged that there will be a considerable interval before the kits are re-run.

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Questions and Information

If you have any questions please e-mail is and we'll do our best to answer them. Please remember though that we are very much still at the learning stage ourselves.

We would also like to hear from anyone with experience of building the original Link/Gibson limited edition kits or the later Gibson kits. Photo's of models would be especially welcome.

 

Progress Report

01/11/07

We're back at looking at the chassis of the kit after the enforced break whilst the day job sent me to New Zealand.

The kit will now definitely contain a new etch as the test build of the original has revealed that a new jointed set of rods is really essential. This etch will also have a new inner chassis carrying working leaf springs and horn blocks. At the moment I can't see a sensible way to add suspension to the trucks so they may well remain the weighted dangly things of the original kit.

Two months out of it does unfortunately mean that it will be early next year before its available.

27/06/07 Artwork for Lew updated with a new picture from Jonathon Clay
26/06/07

Availability: -

  • Likely date for delivery will be as soon as possible but probably towards the end of the year. See the note on the ordering page re my working in New Zealand.

  • Special Offer price limited to a set number of kits rather than "until release" as originally stated
25/04/07 Early days yet but we are in the process of gathering together the components we have and making those we don't have to allow a sample of test models to be produced. Both Alan and I built these kits when they were first released about 20 years ago and can remember there were things we would like to change but as neither of us still have our models we can't remember them all.
  Our plan is to build the test models and then make any changes or design additional bits to include that can be done economically. This can include slight alterations to the photo tool, some additional bits and, if nothing can be done, at least explain the issues in the instructions and suggest alternatives.

 

Version History
 
First Release The kit for Yeo, Exe & Taw was originally released as a limited edition as a collaboration between Roy Link and Alan Gibson. Only 50 kits were produced as it was thought this is all there would be demand for.

Second Release

[1984]

Having had numerous enquiries the purchasers of the limited edition kits were contacted to seek permission for another run. With permission granted the kit was re-tooled with new etch artwork a added to the Gibson general catalogue.

Another version of the artwork was produced to make the later engine Lew.

These kits were last available around 1999

Third Release

Date TBA

Easter 2007. The artwork, patterns and rights to the kits pass to EDM Models with the intention of refreshing the kits and re-releasing them in late 2007

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