TMA Engineering Ltd, is an engineering business based in

Erdington Erdington is a suburb and ward of Birmingham in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Warwickshire and located northeast of central Birmingham, bordering Sutton Coldfield. It was also a council constituency, managed by its o ...

West Midlands West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Ro ...

, who supply services around power presses, but are best known for their sideline in building and overhauling miniature

steam locomotive A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the loco ...

s. Most of the railway work that they undertake is in the 7¼"

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, but they have also overhauled several 15" gauge locomotives, and have built five substantial 15" gauge diesel locomotives. The

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a gauge light railway in Kent, England, operating steam and internal combustion locomotives. The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Ro ...

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has two TMA 15" gauge diesels, ''Captain Howey'' and ''John Southland''; The

Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Rav ...

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has one, ''

Douglas Ferreira Douglas Martin Edward Ferreira, O.B.E., (1929–2003) was the longest-serving general manager of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, a heritage railway in Cumbria, England known as the "Ratty". He was at the heart of the "Ratty" for 34 years. ...

'' and the

Shuzenji Romney Railway The Shuzenji Romney Railway (ロムニー鉄道, ''Romney Railway'') is a 1.2 km, gauge ridable miniature railway located in Niji-no-Sato (Rainbow Park) in Izu, Shizuoka, on the Izu Peninsula in Japan. It is based on the English Romney, Hy ...

in Japan has two. One of the latest projects that the company was to undertake has been the overhauling of the R&ER steam locomotive ''River Mite'' over the Winter of 2006/07.

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