MALLET Piguet 030-030 ---
41x Serie of the 'Réseau Breton'
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The Model Atelier Vaporiste
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Prices
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The Original
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The Model
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Atelier Vaporiste's locomotive has the following characteristics :
| Scale: | 1:22.5 (IIm) 14mm/ft |
| Boiler: | Copper, test certificate provided |
| Equipment: | Sight glass, pressure gauge, regulator, reverser, compound valve |
| Heating: | Butan Gas |
| Piston: | Compound 2 HP + 2 LP and compound valve |
| Valve gear: | Walschaerts with D-Valves |
| Wheels: | 12 driving wheels with steel tyres |
| Minimum radius: | 1.2 m |
| Weight: | Approx. 8 kg in working order |
This kit, unpainted and without drillings for rivets, is not intended for beginners.
No brazing is required to build the locomotive, although some knowledge of live steam
locos as well as a minimum set of handtools will be nesessary to perform the assembly and
settings.
Of course the complete loco, painted/tested will be made available upon request.
Some options and accessories are proposed and are detailed in the price list here below.
The locomotive will be built upon completion of a subscription of 10 models, the subscription runs
until February 28th 2010. It is not excluded, current subscribers permitting, that
the subscription will be extended.
Reservations up to today: 6(05/06/2010)
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All pictures show the first prototype by Atelier Vaporiste
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Prices
Call for subscription (in French)
Form for subscription (in French)
Description (in French)
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Taking into account the raw materials costs variations as well as the not yet determined date for
start of production, the prices here below are based upon the data available by the time the
subscription started, and might be amended slightly. Changes in prices are described more extensively
in the subscription formular.
Final price is the total of the possible options with regards to the locomotive version choosen.
| Product | Price | Notes |
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| Unpainted basic kit | 3 700,00 € |
| Whistle kit | 40,00 € |
| Water tanks/ Cab / Coal bunker drilled, rivets supplied | 300,00 € |
| Water tanks/ Cab / Coal bunker riveted from factory | 450,00 € | This is the overcost for rivetting, thus to cumulate with previous option |
| R/C | 400,00 € | Cost for supplying the R/C |
| R/C Installation | 180,00 € | The customer can provide a R/C which will be installed for the installation price mentionned assuming the R/C provided is compatible with the space available in the loco |
| Pre-painted kit | TBD | Already included in the completed painted loco. |
| Insulated wheels | 96,00 € |
| Complete painted tested locomotive without R/C | 5 000,00 € | The customer can provide a R/C which will be installed for the installation price mentionned assuming the R/C provided is compatible with the space available in the loco |
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The Original
All pictures below are from Wikimedia Commons
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Built specifically for Réseau Breton by Etablissements Piguet in Lyon-Anzin (France), those 0-6-0 0-6-0
Mallet locomotives were the most powerful meter gauge mallets ever produced and used in France.
These locos were intended to be used for heavy freight trains. Smaller 0-4-0 0-4-0 had already shown
mallet locos were relevant for this railway but the increase of traffic and need for more power
leaded to define the 0-6-0 0-6-0 as follows : haul 350 tons at 45 km/h on level track.
From this specification, 9 locos were ordered to Piguet in 1911. Because of WWI , the last loco from
the batch was delivered in Mai 1915.
When completed in the factory, N. 410 and 413 were requisitionned to go on the German border and
returned on Réseau Breton by the end of the War.
Due to war ennemies activities, the 9th loco was never finished.
The locomotives had the following characteristics :
| Length : | 11 mètres (36ft) |
| Cylinders : | 4 ( 2 HP, 2 LP compound) |
| Valve Gear : | Walschaerts |
| Wheels diameter : | 1.01 mètres (4ft 3in.) |
| Weight : | 40 tons empty / 54.5 t on working order |
| Boiler pressure : | 12 bars (170psi) |
All the locomotives were made by Piguet
- Locomotives 410 and 416 were delivered in 1914, 417 in 1915.
- The locomotives were used on the Réseau Breton until its dismiss in 1967.
2 Locomotives have been kept, the others were scrapped.
- N. 415 is nowadays on a roundabout in Carhaix (Brittany) and its status doesn't let a lot of
hope as far as a preservation/restoration in working order is concerned.
- N. 413 had been bought by a private person to be used on the High Vivarais line. During the
preparation of the loco, it was noticed that a piston rod was broken and at the last minute the N. 417
was shipped, fitted with N. 413 workplates.
This locomotive is still in hands of a private, waiting for restoration.
Atelier Vaporiste had the opportunity to take most of the measurements on this last locomotive
and our model is based upon those. Thanks to the owner who let us take some measurements in the past.
I would like to thanks warmly also Gordon Gravett, author of the very inspirative book 'Réseau Breton, a Rail Network in Brittany'
(Oakwood Press) for the quality of his book as well as the very nice and kinds discussions we had together.
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