Friday, 8 November 2013

Day 296

In a grievous oversight, I failed to get this saddle tank's number, and therefore, I can't find out much about it. I tried looking through the NRM's collection on its website, but there are quite a lot of saddle tanks, and none of those I looked at matched this one. Taken 3.11.13.

EDIT: Thanks to Grandpa's sleuthing abilities, I can ID it as 0-4-0ST "Teddy," built by Peckett and Sons in 1941. They specialized in building small saddle tanks for shunting duties and collieries. There is surprisingly little information about them on Wikipedia, considering the number of their locos that are preserved on heritage railways. Presumably the popularity lies in their small size.

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