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 Post subject: National Coal Board 67
PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:25 pm 

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Is this 0-6-2T in the 1962 photo the same as the one described below?

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?m ... b_1962.jpg


No 67 0-6-2T Built by Taff Vale Railway at Cardiff West Yard Works No 306.
T V R Loco No 85, later G W R No 450.
Withdrawn from service in 1926.
Bought by Longmoor military Railway renumbered No 205 later No 70205.
Purchased by National Coal Board ( Durham Area ) in 1948.
Normally worked at South Hetton as Loco No 67.
Now on the Dean Forest Railway.


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 Post subject: Re: National Coal Board 67
PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:54 am 

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Best answer I can give is "probably". "Gordon", as in General Gordon (of Khartoum) is a military locomotive name and the profile of the loco in the picture is that of a generic South Wales 0-6-2T.

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 Post subject: Re: National Coal Board 67
PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:34 pm 

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According to the preponderance of evidence at this site, I'll say "yes" as well:

http://www.deanforestrailway.co.uk/loco_tvr28.html

It spent many years at Caerphilly, which actually was the one to get it steaming again. It is, according to my books, the only surviving Welsh-built standard-gauge steam locomotive (maybe any locomotive) and may technically belong to the National Museum of Wales, unless they somehow swapped it over to the National Railway Museum-York.

This "Gordon" is not to be confused with the 2-10-0 600 Gordon at the Severn Valley Railway (last I heard/remembered), ex-War Department and Longmoor Military Railway.


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