LBSCR A1 / A1x class 0-6-0T - Waddon
Built in December 1875, Waddon was bought by the SECR in September 1904 as Nº751, later becoming a shunter at Lancing, SR Nº680S. It was preserved and shipped to the Delson Museum, near Montreal in Canada, in June 1962. In recent years, stories have been circulating telling of the locomotive being in a sorry, uncared for state. Whether true or not, this is now not the case, as these pictures taken on July 8 2005 show. |
| A long way from home, Waddon stands outside at the
Canadian Railway Museum.
photograph by Gene Kruger |
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Looking into the tiny cab from the drivers side, the most obvious control visible being
the reverser, which partially blocks the entrance!
photograph by Gene Kruger |
| On the opposite cabside is the Westinghouse brake pump. It seem almost
unimaginable that a locomotive built as long ago as Waddon would have air brakes.
photograph by Gene Kruger |
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The fireman doesn't have an obstruction in the doorway to contend with. This view
shows more detail of the pole type reverser, and also the backhead, where the gauge glasses are
without their protective covers.
photograph by Gene Kruger |
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This page was created 10 July 2005
