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Hello,
Happy to reach your forum, sorry for my english, i'm french (i didn't see if i can introduce myself somewhere in the forum)
i've just bought this little Merlin 060
Someone here got the same or another Merlin like this ?
i you have advice about that, i'm a total newbie

Welcome! We have an introduction section here: https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=32

Feel free to tell us a little about yourself, your rail interests, and your railway/aspirations over there!

As for the Merlin, I'll have to defer to the live steam folks. It's very pretty, I think the red suits it well!

Merlin locos seem to have a charm of their own.
You are very fortunate to own such a loco. Please show us more.

Real pretty little thing that. Welcome, by the way

That's an attractive looking loco. Very nice!

Rik

Interesting. This looks like a Major above the running boards, but with outside frames, the Beck wheels, and updated valve gear?

My guess it's a Merlin from pretty early on in their history. I've not seen a Midas with this body before but afaik they are 0-4-0/2 whereas this is 0-6-0?

It looks to have a Beck Chassis/Valves etc but the body work/boiler is distinctively Merlin. Something in between the Mayflower/Major and what I assume are the first Merlin sold locomotives:

Another thread on early Merlin locomotives: https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10424

A video of an early Merlin/Beck which has similar buffers to this one:

For reference, here is my Major:


And my Mayflower:

The chassis and bodywork looks pure Merlin Maestro to me. I have one with a beck boiler (with the regulator valve mounted on the boiler) but yours looks to have a later boiler, so I'm not sure whether it's still a Maestro or not...

And here is a shot of my Merlin Maestro 'Betelgeuse' in action:

Hello,
This morning, i met an old friend of mine (livesteam fan) who helped me to restart my Merlin
we needed about 2 hours to fix few little issues with gaz feeding
I'm happy with the result !

Very Smooth running
Grant.

Thats running really nicely.
My own Merlin Maestro managed to get a run at the recent Llangollen Garden Railway Show. It's not the most reliable of locomotives but has been running really nicely recently so I decided to give it a try - all went very well...

Wellsome! Very nice loco you have. I remember Merlin was one of the pioneer manufacturers of live steam locos in the eighties. Good to see you got it to work also