Pearl 2 prepares to run round its train at Newlands Inn Station on the 2ft gauge Golden Valley Light Railway, 12th July 2008. Allen Civil built this 0-4-2 Inverted Saddle Tank locomotive at his home in Uttoxeter, broadly in accordance with an early Bagnall “6 inch” design. She weighs around 6 tons in full working order. She was built new in 1997 and arrived on the Golden Valley Light Railway from the Amerton Railway, Stowe-by-Chartley, Staffordshire in 2003
Pearl 2 prepares to run round its train at Newlands Inn Station on the 2ft gauge Golden Valley Light Railway, 12th July 2008. Allen Civil built this 0-4-2 Inverted Saddle Tank locomotive at his home in Uttoxeter, broadly in accordance with an early Bagnall “6 inch” design. She weighs around 6 tons in full working order. She was built new in 1997 and arrived on the Golden Valley Light Railway from the Amerton Railway, Stowe-by-Chartley, Staffordshire in 2003
12th July 2008
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78019 departs Loughborough light engine, 13th July 2008. It is a British Railways Standard class 2 2-6-0. The design was derived from the LMS Ivatt class 2MT 2-6-0 with a reduced cab to enable it to fit into the composite BR loading gauge and other standard fittings, most notably a taller chimney. They were all attached to a BR3 tender. Darlington works was responsible for building the entire fleet of 65 engines with 78019 being completed in 1954. With a low axle loading of just 13 ton 15cwt. it allowed the class to operate on most lightly laid routes and secondary lines. 78019 worked for some of its life as station pilot at Euston station, other allocations including Kirkby Stephen, Wigan Springs Branch and Crewe South. Following withdrawal it was sent to Dai Woodham's scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. In 1973, a group of preservationists from the Severn Valley Railway, based at Bewdley, rescued 78019, but since this time it had sat untouched in Kidderminster station yard, at the end of a long line of engines requiring the attention, until 19th March 1998, when 78019 arrived at the Great Central Railway to begin restoration. Previous | NextA heavy rain shower approaches as 6233 Duchess of Sutherland storms out of Swanwick Junction with a train for Butterley, 12th July 2008.

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