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7 mm/ft scale
B9, B10
2-4-2T GER M15/LNER F4 driving wheels. (1903-09 built locos with cast steel wheels)

5′ 4″ diam., 16 oval spokes, hump inner rim, apparent tread 4½″.
Hub 2″ out from the tyre, pin in line at 11″

Sources: Lyn D. Brooks, 'Updating Buckle' in Journ. GER Soc., 129:12-19 (Jan 2007).
Great Eastern Railway Society, drawing by John Gardner of LNER No 106E, class F4 at c. 1:16 scale.

Casting: 37.3 mm tread dia., 32.1 i/d, hub 1.2 above the tyre, pin at 6.4 mm.

Casting prices and stock . GER loco sets, price list

Scan of castings in a set for a 2-4-2T GER M15/LNER F4

Scan of castings B9  Scan of castings B10

Cross section diagram of castings B9 and B10
This example shows a tyre width of 3.5 mm for Gauge 0 Fine.
For Scale7 remove more metal from the back of the wheel to give a tyre thickness of 3.2 mm instead of 3.5 mm.


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