Builder: This is a DUCK!
Region: Europe & Middle East
Category entered:
Year entered: 2026
Brand of building bricks used:
LEGO
Since 2026, the Brick Train Awards have accepted models created with other LEGO®-compatible construction brick systems.
About L&BR Bury Bar-Frame Locomotive (1837) by This is a DUCK!
Based on the Edward's Bar-Frame locomotive design for the London & Birmingham Railway of 1837. As always, I wanted it powered by its proper driving wheels, so a circuit cube motor is between the frames and the battery box takes up most of the tender space and is an integral part of its structure. The only other non-Lego parts are the wheels. I tried my best to make them as close to the real wheels as I could in design and scale. Being such an old loco, it was hard finding any dimensions or drawings. One of the only depictions I had access to was carved into the wall of an ex-workhouse, now hospital, probably around the 1840s (see photo).
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