Update 23 December 2022

Delivery of Existing Orders
Unfortunately, this has been a difficult week for us with Ros catching COVID on Tuesday and today, Friday, I also tested positive for COVID. I had hoped to make a few additional local deliveries, but for health safety reasons this has not been possible. Industrial action on the railways, the Post Office and the NHS in the UK still grows and remains a threat to normal activity both business and leisure. As soon as I recover, we will resume deliveries as best as we can.

Rebuilt Royal Scot Locomotives Programme
This last 3 weeks we have been working on the revised Royal Scot Programme Schedules for the website. The work has nearly finished. The objective has been to provide as wide a choice of models as possible within a reasonable programme total volume. We have reduced the Rebuilt Patriot Programme to only 10 engines with the possibility of allocating the 5 additional engines to any of the other programmes including British Legion where there are only 3 slots left. The maximum production remains at 80 7P 4-6-0 engines.

We do not plan to make the original large parallel boiler Royal Scot at this stage, but if enough of you are willing to reserve these locomotives, we could possibly add it to the programme. As an indication we would need at least 30 reservations to consider this option. If you are interested in this option we need to know fairly soon, so please do make contact if you want one of these engines.

Merry Christmas 2022 and Happy New Year 2023
We would like to thank you all for your orders and reservations and especially for your patience in waiting for deliveries of your locomotives. Although our family Christmas is cancelled for us for the third successive time, we wish you all good health, happiness and prosperity for Christmas and the year ahead.