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. |
| Push-pull working was sometimes adopted in the early days of
the Bluebell Railway. Here LBSCR "Terrier" 0-6-0 No 55 (BR No. 32655)
is seen leaving Horsted Keynes for Sheffield Park, with the LNWR Observation
car and an SECR 100 seater compartment coach.
photograph by Keith Harwood |
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Number 55 Stepney propelling the SECR brake van to
Horsted Keynes on Sunday, 23 September 2000 during a Footplate
Days and Ways Footplate and Firing experience trip.
photograph by Michael Taylor |
| 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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