Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Join Curator, Anthony Coulls, and discover the beauty of locomotive engineering and journey through 100 years of model-making.

Brass, Steel and Fire highlights the great age of experimentation when vicars, lace makers and engineers breathed life into hissing, steaming miniature locomotives.

Explore a selection of beautifully intricate homemade creations, including some of the oldest of their kind, and delve into the stories of these humble makers who produced extraordinary machines entirely from scratch.

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00:00 Introduction
00:45 What is a 'Dribbler'?
01:37 The World's Oldest working model steam engine
02:16 Cosmo Bonsar
02:40 Topsy
02:50 Salamanca: The world's oldest model train
03:17 Twin cylinder locomotive
03:46 Fire King
04:15 100 years of model making

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