This is a slightly freelance model for the NBR, based on a Neilson industrial design from the 1870s. Compare http://uk.geocities.com/chris.gibbon123@btinternet.com/Pages/neilsonpage.htm for the design

This attractive little Drummond 4-4-0T was built from an etched kit. These small tanks were seen all over the NB system until the 1920s

Another view of the Drummond tank showing the bunker and toolbox. The tiny numberplate on this model is especially fine

The toughest test! Jim Summers recently completed this wonderful model of the small-wheeled ferry pilot 0-6-0ST No. 32 designed by Wheatley in 1874. The model (8cm long over bufferbeams) is shown above a photo of the original from the same angle. The accuracy is extraordinary. Photo by courtesy of Jim Summers

Jim Summers's delightful No. 32 from the left-hand side, showing the numberplate newly fitted

The Wheatley double-framed 2-4-0 was scratchbuilt based on drawings prepared by myself, to be seen elsewhere in this gallery

Three-quarter front view of the 2-4-0

Profile view of No. 38. These closeup views are a little cruel to the models, since even a dustspeck shows up at full size

No. 38 sits awaiting a train with coal wagons in the background

Now coupled to the very early NBR coaching stock

Another rather merciless profile view. This model represents an interesting class of dock shunters used on both sides of the Forth for shunting trains near the ferries that operated on the firth before the 1890 bridge was built

These Wheatley saddletanks appeared with two different wheel sizes: this version shows the larger size

Even in such a tiny model the pressure gauge is reproduced

This interesting 0-6-0 represents an engine built originally by Hawthorns of Leith and rebuilt by Wheatley in the early 1870s. It resembled Wheatley's standard goods except for the smaller, lower boiler and four-wheel tender

No. 80A with the Neilson tank behind

This view shows the tender with its attractive sloped flare to the tender tank

These three photographs were kindly supplied by Jim Summers and are published here with his permission. Here Wheatley 0-4-0 No. 358 shunts on the Burntisland layout with No 42 in the background

Since 358 was a goods engine, let's say that it is shunting the early unbraked passenger stock here ... the exquisite quality of the scalefour track is well displayed in this photograph

No 358 moves out along the wall of the East dock at Burntisland. The second stage of this modelling project will be something to see when it is exhibited next year

This model shows Wheatley's first class, a 0-4-0 tender class first built in 1868 from scrap and spare parts, shown here in almost original condition

Profile view of the 0-4-0 in closer detail

Three-quarter view of engine and tender

An interesting feature of the Burntisland stock is these first-generation four-wheelers from the 1840s. They are an anachronism for 1883 but a rather engaging one

This windowless third class carriage would have been very much obsolete by 1880