Builder: Michael Gibbs "The Lego Railway Series"
Region: Americas
Category entered:
Year entered: 2023
Brand of building bricks used:
LEGO
Since 2026, the Brick Train Awards have accepted models created with other LEGO®-compatible construction brick systems.
About “Salty” The BR Class 07 Tidmouth Harbor Shunter by Michael Gibbs "The Lego Railway Series"
Another Sodor Engine! while not one of the main numbered Locomotives of the NWR on Sodor, Salty the BR Class 07 that works at Tidmouth Harboras a shunter is just as famous as the rest of them.
I had such a hard time getting the slopes on the side just right but realized later that the simplest solution was the correct one and its just straight walls on hinge bricks!
while this may be a digital entry, I want to make it clear that this model as been designed with the intention of being built physically. Everything you see here has been built using legal building techniques (or techniques LEGO themselves have used in the past, such as cutting tube elements) All bricks are also available in the colors that you see. The only exceptions to this are the use of 3rd party wheels, and a custom made substitute for holding on the driving rods, as the official part is both retired and too
expensive.
Henry is fully motorized with a single PU L motors hidden in the Firebox and a battery box in the tender. The drive rods, despite looking fragile have actually been tested physically at this point and work as you would expect them too!