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Revision as of 00:02, 7 December 2015

1450 and autocoaches at Highley

1450 in service

1450 is a GWRGreat Western Railway 14xx class 0-4-2T locomotive. These locomotives were designed to work on small branch lines and most were equipped from new to work with autocoaches. When first built at Swindon they were numbered in the 48xx series, and this locomotive first entered service in 1935 as No. 4850.

In 1946 the GWRGreat Western Railway decided to reallocate the 14xx numbers to a different class of locomotives and 4850 was renumbered 1450. Following nationalisation BRBritish Rail or British Railways rated the class 1PThe British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.. 1450 was finally withdrawn from service by BRBritish Rail or British Railways in May 1965 after a working life totalling 823,012 miles.

1450 in preservation

1450 spent her early life in preservation at the Dart Valley Railway (now the South Devon Railway). She was eventually purchased from there by her present owner, Mike Little.[1]

1450 arrived at the SVRSevern Valley Railway in March 2014, initially on hire for the year. Although not powerful enough to haul service trains, the locomotive is regularly used on Footplate Experience duties, as well as appearing at galas on the SVRSevern Valley Railway and elsewhere. However, 1450 did haul a service train in 2014, double heading with 4566 to provide the required power, due to a number of ongoing locomotive repairs leaving the SVRSevern Valley Railway unexpectedly short on engines. No announcement has yet been made on when 1450 will leave, and it has been reported that Mike Little is happy with the current arrangements (Nov. 2015).

Sources

  1. SDR web site, retrieved 25-01-2015.

See also

Steam Locomotives