From time to time various items are offered to raise funds for particular Great Western Society activities, with profits from each item sold going towards a particular project.
Please note that these items cannot be bought through the shop and must be ordered as directed with each individual item.
Using the GWR Loco Sketchpad, you can sketch out steam locomotives based on the GWR principles of locomotive design in use from about 1900 to Nationalisation.With the standard components and the very strong ‘house style’ used by the Great Western drawing office it's possible to see what a new locomotive design might look like.
GWR Loco Sketchpad allows you to visualise these projected designs. The drawing that you produce is similar in concept to the GWR Loco Diagrams, but with optional liveries and backgrounds.
To design a new locomotive using the GWR Loco Sketchpad, you input a series of measurements to define sizes and options or, you can use a special graphical ‘sketching’ interface to set the principal measurements. You can of course edit your locomotive details to fine-tune your design. The program includes a range of existing GWR locomotives that you can draw in fully lined or unlined liveries or as outlines only. You can then modify these designs - change the wheel arrangement, valve gear, boiler sizes, tanks and tender, repaint the loco (and more besides).
The GWR Loco Sketchpad costs £12.50 with all profit going directly to the Great Western Society (to the Saint or County building fund, at your choice).
Price £12.50 (including post & packing)
This item can be purchased, using the order form, from:
Alec Bray
GWR Loco Sketchpad offer
2 Goodliffe Gardens
Tilehurst
Reading
Berks. RG31 6FZ
More Information and Order Form (800 kb .pdf document)