LBSCR A1 / A1x class 0-6-0T
| Although BR inherited the ageing remaining
'Terriers' in 1948 for use on the IOW, KESR, Hayling Island branch,
Brighton Works, Littlehampton wharf, and even on the GWR line at Weston , near
Bristol, their days were again numbered, as traffic on these lines dropped off
with the spread of the motor car.
The rise of the preservation movement happened just in time to rescue a few of the 'Terriers', some also had the good luck to become the playthings of such enterprises as Butlins Holiday Camps and Brickwoods the brewers, to survive and eventually migrate to preserved railways. |
| Nº32650 (originally Nº50 Whitechapel) was one of the
Terriers that featured regularly on the Hayling Island trains. After withdrawal in
1963 she was sold to the embryonic Kent & East Sussex Railway where she
remains to this day. In this photograph she is shown stored at Robertsbridge.
Note the rags stuffed into the chimney to keep the weather out!
photograph by Ray Soper |
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Another view of Nº32650, this time at Robertsbridge circa
1966.
photograph by Ian Fossey |
| Terrier Nº70, Poplar has had, and is still enjoying, a varied career. She entered traffic with the LB&SCR in November 1872 and was then sold to the Rother Valley Railway where she became Nº3 Bodiam. The Rother Valley Railway duly became the Kent & East Sussex Railway where she continued to serve well, although losing her name somewhere around 1935. Then when the railways were nationalized in 1948 she was returned to the "Southern" fold in the correct number sequence as 32670 until her withdrawal from service in November 1963. Her story does not end there, though, as she was then acquired by the present-day preserved Kent & East Sussex Railway where she has resumed her longest identity as Nº3! |
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Left, Nº3, on the original KESR.
photograph: Mike Morant collection Right, Nº3 on the present day KESR in 1974 photograph by Michael Taylor |
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| A Terrier in island service on the Isle of Wight Steam
Railway in Isle of Wight Central Railway Livery. Note the extended bunker that
was fitted to the Island Terriers to increase coal capacity.
photograph by Mike Gale Jr. |
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Number 11 is pictured again at Haven Street in Southern Railway
black livery in 1998.
video capture by Richard Sheppard |
| The Isle of Wight Steam Railway's Number 8 Freshwater
at Wootton during summer 2000. Compare the bunker on Freshwater with
that on Stepney.
photograph by Jonathan Hall |
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Number 8 toying with a short string of wagons at Wootton
summer 2000.
photograph by Jonathan Hall |
All photographs are copyright
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3rd |
4th
Preserved Terriers:
5th |
Fenchurch |
Stepney |
Waddon |
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This page was last updated 22 March 2004
