TMA Engineering

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TMA Engineering Ltd, 95-111 Tyburn Rd, Erdington, Birmingham, Great Britain. Their main business is supplying, maintaining, repairing and rebuilding power presses.

They have a sideline in building and overhauling miniature steam locomotives (typically 7¼” gauge); They have also overhauled several 15” gauge locomotives, and have built five substantial 15" gauge diesel locomotives.

The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent has two TMA 15" gauge diesels, Captain Howey and John Southland; The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria has one, Douglas Ferreira and the Shuzenji Romney Railway in Japan has two. One of the latest projects that the company is to undertake is the overhauling of the R&ER steam locomotive River Mite over the Winter of 2006/07. At present, the company boss, Brett Rogers, is in talks with the R&ER Preservation Society, the locomotive's owners, over the costs of transportation to and from the workshops in Birmingham.