LBSCR A1 / A1x class 0-6-0T
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"Great Westernized" Terrier Nº5 photographed
during June 1951 whilst in store at Swindon.
photograph courtesy Jerry Ricketts and stated to be in the
Public Domain when posted on the alt.binaries.pictures.rail newsgroup. |
| This is one "Terrier" that led a very full life! Built in June 1877 and entering traffic as A1 class Nº43, Gypsyhill, subsequently renumbered by the LB&SCR as Nº643 and converted to class A1x, she was sold by the Southern Railway in 1925 to the Weston, Cleveland and Portishead Railway where she became Nº2 Portishead. In 1940 she was absorbed into the GWR (who had absorbed the WC&PR) and became their Nº5. Following nationalization of the railways in 1948 she entered British Railways (Western Region) stock as BR Nº5, the number she kept until final withdrawal in March 1954. However, was she used again after 1951? |
| See also the article on Two Unusual South Eastern Tank Engines in the Railway Magazine Archives. |
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