![]() FH2528 built by FC Hibberd at their Park Royal Corporation works. On show at the weekend was Planet Type 39 No. The air-cooled FL2 type Deutz-engined Belgian Moes. It never entered their service and later sold to the Bredgar & Wormshill Railway before being sold on to the Claude Jessett Trust at Hadlow Down in East Sussex. After arriving in Britain in 1972 it had a new boiler made by Jones Brothers of Preston in preparation for use on the West Lancs Light Railway. FH2528 more on this in a moment.Ī visitor to the railway was another Orenstein & Koppel product, Sao Domingos, another 0-6-0 well tank sold to Portugal through O&K’s Madrid agent in 1928 for work at a coal mine in northern Portugal. It was double-headed on passenger trains by a Planet 20hp diesel locomotive No. The boiler was built by Bennet Boilers Ltd for the Moors Valley Railway. It has undergone a complete rebuild to a steam locomotive retaining only the wheels and frames of the original engine. Interestingly its origins were also Orenstein & Koppel but as a diesel engine built in 1937 and it’s reported to have been used at the Peenemunde V2 rocket testing facility. ![]() (Pic: David Vaughan)Īlso here is a neat little 0-4-0 tank locomotive named Emmet that’s on loan from the Moors Valley Railway in Dorset. Hunslet diesel Champion in the works sidings. To celebrate its 40th anniversary the railway was running an intensive service over the weekend utilising nearly all its rolling stock and two of its three steam engines. The railway was running three steam engines, and at least one diesel, along a fairly short but quite scenic line that runs alongside the main museum site. The line started in the 1970s as the 2ft Wey Valley Light Railway based around an out-of-use pumping station before eventually coming to the Rural Life Centre in 1982. No visit to the museum would be complete without a ride on the 2ft gauge Old Kiln Light Railway, under the management of David Knott and his team of volunteers. Madge died in 2002 and Henry a few years later but today the museum, now a charitable trust, contains over 40,000 artefacts housed in an assortment of buildings, some of which, like the cricket pavilion, chapel and school room, have been moved from other local settings to the site. Eloise, with David Knoll on the footplate, heads off with another train.
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