With a background in steam engineering, Brian purchased a Myford lathe in order to build a 5-inch gauge locomotive. Years later he built a 7 1/4-inch gauge locomotive before discovering the delights of Garden Railways. A locomotive construction series in the Australian Model Engineer magazine soon followed and the book
Steam Trains in Your Garden was published in 2007.
In 2017 he was joined by his son Tim, a Marine Engineer, with the aim of providing high quality customised locomotives to order. Strong practical skills combined with advanced Engineering and CAD experience would allow the complete in-house design, development, manufacturing, lining and painting of all locomotives.
A 7/8ths scale Hunslet ‘Jack’ and ‘Waril’ were chosen as the starting point for refining a product and developing other designs. Demand for the Hunslets was so strong however, that no other designs were put into production for the first 5 years.
In 2023, a program commenced to make home builder kits available and the Small Steam Performance (SSP) Slomo and Radio Control kits were added to the product range.
