Little Giant to Gigantic

Gigantic Locomotive Company/Ravenglass Railway Museum
Press Statement

Little Giant to Gigantic


The Gigantic Locomotive Locomotive company is pleased to announce working In Partnership with the Ravenglass Railway Museum an exhibition Entitled Little Giant to Gigantic ,

The Exhibition tells the story of the Bassett Lowke Locomotives built between 1904 and 1913 for pleasure railways and estate railways and has reunited The first Lowke Atlantic Little Giant With Larger classmate Synolda and Bassett Lowke 4-4-4 “Pretender “ Blaclovesley the world’s first Petrol mechanical locomotive

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This Reunion is the first time all the related locomotives have been in one place in twenty three years and is itself a milestone which is supporting the Project to recreate”Gigantic “Bassett Lowke sole pacific locomotive originally built for Captain JEP Howey whom later built the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway

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This project is Funded purely by Donations and recent activities have seen the front bogie and tender bogie frame plates cut and prepared for assembly alongside the bogie bolster castings patterns produced and cast using 3d modelling software to reverse engineer original drawings, Updates can be found by viewing our Facebook page www.facebook.co.uk/giganticlocomotive