Royal Scot class 6135 was built by Mr. Arthur Duckworth, born 1905 died 1979.
He, was born and raised in Blackburn/ Lower Darwen to Harry Duckworth a bank clerk.He was married to Lily 1929.
He became an engineer in the merchant navy Elder Dempster line plying the west coast of Africa in 1927 until 1937.
His war years were spent in a factory near Accrington making aeroplane engines.
After the war he was an engineer in Blackburn making weaving machinery.
It was at this time that he became interested in making the model locomotive, a Royal Scot class number 46135.
Ken Duckworth, his don remembers in his youth parts of it being in the house and being a young lad just accepted it as being part of the furniture.
Ken mentioned "I do remember later when I was in my early teens giving him some help in riveting parts to the engine frame but other than that I’m afraid I showed little interest which on reflection must have been a disappointment to him".
When he died in 1979 I advertised it in Model Engineer and it was sold to R D Palmer in Wimbish. The restoration and fettling was completed mostly by Severn-Lamb, then in Stratford-upon-Avon. Having been started by Arthur Duckworth in 1956 the loco ran for the first time about 1983, It made frequent visits to the Birchley House Railway of Drummond Randall in the 1980's and 1990's because its unusually smaller size than other Scots allowed it the negotiate the tight bends on that railway.
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